looking at the current security issues and how it triggers the troll-army i wonder why systemd-journald.service is not restricted from at least write to /usr and /root at least on Fedora 28 (that it's not vulernable because of compiler hardening is just luck) [root@testserver:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service.d/security.conf [Service] ProtectSystem=strict ProtectHome=yes ReadWritePaths=/run ReadWritePaths=/var [root@testserver:~]$ systemctl status systemd-journald.service ● systemd-journald.service - Journal Service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service.d └─security.conf Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-01-10 19:00:30 CET; 42s ago Docs: man:systemd-journald.service(8) man:journald.conf(5) Main PID: 398 (systemd-journal) Status: "Processing requests..." Tasks: 1 (limit: 512) Memory: 4.7M CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-journald.service └─398 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald Jan 10 19:00:30 testserver.rhsoft.net systemd-journald[398]: Journal started Jan 10 19:00:30 testserver.rhsoft.net systemd-journald[398]: Runtime journal (/run/log/journal/b3591cfc6c4e65ea231a7d08489dc40f) is 2.5M, max 10.0M, 7.5M free. Jan 10 19:00:30 testserver.rhsoft.net systemd-journald[398]: Runtime journal (/run/log/journal/b3591cfc6c4e65ea231a7d08489dc40f) is 2.5M, max 10.0M, 7.5M free. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel