Comment 1 for bug 517773

The other implementation option would be to drop the dd upstart job for good, and just let rsyslogd run as root if it detects that reading from /proc/kmsg requires root.

Test case schema:

$ sudo python
[sudo] password for martin:
>>> import os
>>> f=open('/proc/kmsg')
>>> os.seteuid(1000)
>>> f.read(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IOError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted