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shadow-native: Disable syslog usage

Message ID 20260507093222.33735-1-frezidok1@gmail.com
State Accepted, archived
Commit a52572886e60e4aff9d54b57bf45a301e1dec1ee
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Series shadow-native: Disable syslog usage | expand

Commit Message

Dmitry Sakhonchik May 7, 2026, 9:32 a.m. UTC
Upstream has accepted configure option and merged it into their master branch.

After they release v4.20 we can remove the patch and rewrite recipe with the configure option.

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 .../shadow/files/disable_syslog.patch         | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.17.2.bb |  1 +
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/disable_syslog.patch

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diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/disable_syslog.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/disable_syslog.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7299a8e61cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/disable_syslog.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ 
+When building images using shadow-native, we shouldn't be spamming the host's
+log with lots of syslog messages which aren't relavent. Disable syslog use
+in the native case.
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [Merged to upstream's master, waiting for release]
+Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
+Signed-off-by: Dmitry Sakhonchik <frezidok1@gmail.com>
+
+Index: shadow-4.17.2/lib/defines.h
+===================================================================
+--- shadow-4.17.2.orig/lib/defines.h
++++ shadow-4.17.2/lib/defines.h
+@@ -88,7 +88,9 @@
+ 
+ /* cleaner than lots of #ifdefs everywhere - use this as follows:
+    SYSLOG((LOG_CRIT, "user %s cracked root", user)); */
+-#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
++#if 1
++#define SYSLOG(x)
++#elif ENABLE_NLS
+ /* Temporarily set LC_TIME to "C" to avoid strange dates in syslog.
+    This is a workaround for a more general syslog(d) design problem -
+    syslogd should log the current system time for each event, and not
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.17.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.17.2.bb
index 5459d4e57ff..19512f25941 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.17.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow_4.17.2.bb
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@  SRC_URI:append:class-target = " \
 
 SRC_URI:append:class-native = " \
            file://commonio.c-fix-unexpected-open-failure-in-chroot-env.patch \
+           file://disable_syslog.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "064a7c048e613ef5b5f3613e137d79d35d062ab434e89020f743e90844ec5c4f"
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "releases/tag/v?(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)$"