Re: F26 System Wide Change: Enable coredumpctl by default

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On Monday, 12 December 2016 at 20:54, Nicholas Miell wrote:
[...]
> systemd-coredump (or, rather, journald) ignores the split between system
> accounts and user accounts as configured in /etc/login.defs ("the
> authoritative definition of UID/GID space allocation", according to the
> Fedora wiki) and instead hard codes 1000 as the split*.
> 
> The end result is that when systemd-coredump enabled, unprivileged users
> cannot access their own core dumps. (Or any of their own logs in journald.)
> 
> This means that if you are a loyal Fedora user that initially installed
> before the change from 500 to 1000 (Fedora 15 or earlier) and have been
> faithfully upgrading from release to release, enabling systemd-coredump by
> default in Fedora 26 will be a regression in functionality.
> 
> systemd-coredump should not be enabled by default in Fedora until this bug
> is fixed by the systemd developers.
> 
> *: It's actually more egregious than that: /etc/login.defs is parsed on the
> build machine at compile time and the extracted value is hard coded into the
> various systemd executables which then completely ignore /etc/login.defs at
> run time.

Have you filed a bug (preferably upstream)? If yes, please share the bug
number and comment in the FESCo ticket (https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1654).

Regards,
Dominik
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