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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 3 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-*/
-
-#include "includes.h"
-#include "system/filesys.h"
-
-/**
- * @file
- * @brief Gaining/losing root privileges
- */
-
-/*
-  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 root 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(struct saved_state *s)
-{
-	if (geteuid() != s->uid &&
-	    seteuid(s->uid) != 0) {
-		smb_panic("Failed to restore privileges");
-	}
-	return 0;
-}
-
-/**
- * Obtain root privileges for the current process.
- *
- * The privileges can be dropped by talloc_free()-ing the 
- * token returned by this function
- */
-void *root_privileges(void)
-{
-	struct saved_state *s;
-	s = talloc(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;
-}