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authorGravatar Nikias Bassen2009-04-17 17:43:59 +0200
committerGravatar Nikias Bassen2009-04-17 17:43:59 +0200
commitd54c5f4f0d87f76cf2a11fd88ec18cdbd67edaa2 (patch)
treed66cdea31d3b020cfe2d859f8e21941095459973 /main.c
parent8743112105e2f5d1539a266f9e174c9895c7c2c5 (diff)
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Drop privileges after startup
Diffstat (limited to 'main.c')
-rw-r--r--main.c25
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index 157ecbb..8fb36ef 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <usb.h>
+#include <pwd.h>
#include "usbmuxd-proto.h"
#include "sock_stuff.h"
@@ -1018,7 +1019,27 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
lock.l_whence = SEEK_SET;
lock.l_start = 0;
lock.l_len = 0;
- fcntl(fileno(lfd), F_SETLK, &lock);
+ if (fcntl(fileno(lfd), F_SETLK, &lock) == -1) {
+ logmsg(LOG_ERR, "ERROR: lockfile locking failed!");
+ }
+ }
+
+ // drop elevated privileges
+ if (getuid() == 0 || geteuid() == 0) {
+ struct passwd *pw = getpwnam("nobody");
+ if (pw) {
+ setuid(pw->pw_uid);
+ } else {
+ logmsg(LOG_ERR, "ERROR: Dropping privileges failed, check if user 'nobody' exists! Will now terminate.");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ // security check
+ if (setuid(0) != -1) {
+ logmsg(LOG_ERR, "ERROR: Failed to drop privileges properly!");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+ if (verbose >= 2) logmsg(LOG_NOTICE, "Successfully dropped privileges");
}
// Reserve space for 10 clients which should be enough. If not, the
@@ -1137,7 +1158,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
// unlock lock file and close it.
if (lfd) {
lock.l_type = F_UNLCK;
- fcntl(fileno(lfd), F_SETLK, lock);
+ fcntl(fileno(lfd), F_SETLK, &lock);
fclose(lfd);
}