From d4fbfa57001d42144a6fde0db96a36ce21f388bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Poessinger <christian@poessinger.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 20:30:33 +0100
Subject: syslog: T2086: do not log cron and su to regular syslog

---
 src/etc/rsyslog.d/01-auth.conf | 14 ++++++++++++++
 src/etc/rsyslog.d/sudo.conf    |  9 ---------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/etc/rsyslog.d/01-auth.conf
 delete mode 100644 src/etc/rsyslog.d/sudo.conf

(limited to 'src/etc')

diff --git a/src/etc/rsyslog.d/01-auth.conf b/src/etc/rsyslog.d/01-auth.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cc64099d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/etc/rsyslog.d/01-auth.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# The lines below cause all listed daemons/processes to be logged into
+# /var/log/auth.log, then drops the message so it does not also go to the
+# regular syslog so that messages are not duplicated
+
+$outchannel auth_log,/var/log/auth.log
+if  $programname == 'CRON' or
+    $programname == 'sudo' or
+    $programname == 'su'
+    then :omfile:$auth_log
+
+if $programname == 'CRON' or
+    $programname == 'sudo' or
+    $programname == 'su'
+    then stop
diff --git a/src/etc/rsyslog.d/sudo.conf b/src/etc/rsyslog.d/sudo.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 589651f87..000000000
--- a/src/etc/rsyslog.d/sudo.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Isolating sudo messages from syslog
-#
-# https://debian-administration.org/article/676/Isolating_sudo_messages_from_syslog
-
-# match if "program name" is equal to "sudo"
-:programname, isequal, "sudo" -/var/log/auth.log
-
-# if we matched this causes the input to be swallowed, preventing further logging.
-& ~
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