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authorAndrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>2004-11-03 10:09:48 +0000
committerGerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>2007-10-10 13:05:23 -0500
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r3507: - added deferred replies on sharing violation in pvfs open. The
deferred reply is short-circuited immediately when the file is closed by another user, allowing it to be opened by the waiting user. - added a sane set of timeval manipulation routines - converted all the events code and code that uses it to use struct timeval instead of time_t, which allows for microsecond resolution instead of 1 second resolution. This was needed for doing the pvfs deferred open code, and is why the patch is so big. (This used to be commit 0d51511d408d91eb5f68a35e980e0875299b1831)
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+/*
+ Unix SMB/CIFS implementation.
+
+ gain/lose root privileges
+
+ Copyright (C) Andrew Tridgell 2004
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+*/
+
+#include "includes.h"
+#include "system/passwd.h"
+
+/*
+ there are times when smbd needs to temporarily gain root privileges
+ to do some operation. To do this you call root_privileges(), which
+ returns a talloc handle. To restore your previous privileges
+ talloc_free() this pointer.
+
+ Note that this call is considered successful even if it does not
+ manage to gain too privileges, but it will call smb_abort() if it
+ fails to restore the privileges afterwards. The logic is that
+ failing to gain root access can be caught by whatever operation
+ needs to be run as root failing, but failing to lose the root
+ privileges is dangerous.
+
+ This also means that this code is safe to be called from completely
+ unprivileged processes.
+*/
+
+struct saved_state {
+ uid_t uid;
+};
+
+static int privileges_destructor(void *ptr)
+{
+ struct saved_state *s = ptr;
+ if (geteuid() != s->uid &&
+ seteuid(s->uid) != 0) {
+ smb_panic("Failed to restore privileges");
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+void *root_privileges(void)
+{
+ struct saved_state *s;
+ s = talloc_p(NULL, struct saved_state);
+ if (!s) return NULL;
+ s->uid = geteuid();
+ if (s->uid != 0) {
+ seteuid(0);
+ }
+ talloc_set_destructor(s, privileges_destructor);
+ return s;
+}
+