Right, that's the problem that was mentioned before: rsyslog needs to check if it can read from /proc/kmsg as non-root, and not drop privileges if not. In other works, seteuid(), read() -> on fail, seteuid(0) and keep it that way, on success -> setuid() -> permanently drop privs.
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