From 29e36b713468d7e7de301c483fc340ef42b4a9fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 07:06:48 +0000
Subject: extracted the password change code from smbpasswd and used it in swat
 instead of opening pipes and other horrible stuff. (This used to be commit
 49bf19710345a59a2d17cd449be1a132885ed821)

---
 source3/lib/util.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+)

(limited to 'source3/lib')

diff --git a/source3/lib/util.c b/source3/lib/util.c
index 2be1fcaf6f..1710205f3c 100644
--- a/source3/lib/util.c
+++ b/source3/lib/util.c
@@ -3095,3 +3095,56 @@ BOOL reg_split_key(char *full_keyname, uint32 *reg_type, char *key_name)
 
 	return True;
 }
+
+/****************************************************************************
+  become the specified uid - permanently !
+****************************************************************************/
+BOOL become_user_permanently(uid_t uid, gid_t gid)
+{
+	/* now completely lose our privilages. This is a fairly paranoid
+	   way of doing it, but it does work on all systems that I know of */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_SETRESUID
+	/*
+	 * Firstly ensure all our uids are set to root.
+	 */
+	setresgid(0,0,0);
+	setresuid(0,0,0);
+
+	/*
+	 * Now ensure we change all our gids.
+	 */
+	setresgid(gid,gid,gid);
+	
+	/*
+	 * Now ensure all the uids are the user.
+	 */
+	setresuid(uid,uid,uid);
+#else
+	/*
+	 * Firstly ensure all our uids are set to root.
+	 */
+	setuid(0);
+	seteuid(0);
+	
+	/*
+	 * Now ensure we change all our gids.
+	 */
+	setgid(gid);
+	setegid(gid);
+	
+	/*
+	 * Now ensure all the uids are the user.
+	 */
+	setuid(uid);
+	seteuid(uid);
+#endif
+	
+	if (getuid() != uid || geteuid() != uid ||
+	    getgid() != gid || getegid() != gid) {
+		/* We failed to lose our privilages. */
+		return False;
+	}
+	
+	return(True);
+}
-- 
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