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Commit e79d0b59 authored by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek's avatar Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Committed by Lennart Poettering
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journalctl: improve hint about lack of access for --user-unit=...

When running journalctl --user-unit=foo as an unprivileged user we could get
the usual hint:
Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from the system and other users.
      Users in groups 'adm', 'systemd-journal', 'wheel' can see all messages.
      ...
But with --user-unit our filter is:
(((_UID=0 OR _UID=1000) AND OBJECT_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT=foo.service) OR
 ((_UID=0 OR _UID=1000) AND COREDUMP_USER_UNIT=foo.service) OR
 (_UID=1000 AND USER_UNIT=foo.service) OR
 (_UID=1000 AND _SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT=foo.service))
so we would never see messages from other users.

We could still see messages from the system. In fact, on my machine the
only messages with OBJECT_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT= are from the system:
journalctl  $(journalctl -F OBJECT_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT|sed 's/.*/OBJECT_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT=\0/')

Thus, a more correct hint is that we cannot see messages from the system.
Make it so.

Fixes #7887.
parent 2e10cc56
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