journalctl: politely refuse if non-root usernames are specified for --machine=

We currently cannot support that (supporting that would probably require
some active component in the machine, or alternatively idmapped mounts
or so), hence politely refuse it.

See: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/32997#issuecomment-2127700945
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Lennart Poettering
2025-06-05 12:49:35 +02:00
parent 994a42a096
commit 137a8ce14d
+13 -3
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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include "alloc-util.h"
#include "glob-util.h"
#include "hostname-util.h"
#include "id128-util.h"
#include "journal-util.h"
#include "journalctl.h"
@@ -43,9 +44,18 @@ int acquire_journal(sd_journal **ret) {
r = sd_journal_open_files_fd(&j, (int[]) { STDIN_FILENO }, 1, arg_journal_additional_open_flags);
else if (arg_file)
r = sd_journal_open_files(&j, (const char**) arg_file, arg_journal_additional_open_flags);
else if (arg_machine)
r = journal_open_machine(&j, arg_machine, arg_journal_additional_open_flags);
else
else if (arg_machine) {
_cleanup_free_ char *u = NULL, *h = NULL;
r = split_user_at_host(arg_machine, &u, &h);
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to split machine specification '%s': %m", arg_machine);
if (!isempty(u) && !streq(u, "root"))
return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EOPNOTSUPP), "Connecting to a machine as non-root is not supported.");
r = journal_open_machine(&j, h ?: ".host", arg_journal_additional_open_flags);
} else
r = sd_journal_open_namespace(
&j,
arg_namespace,