source: MondoRescue/branches/3.3/mindi-busybox/libbb/change_identity.c@ 3865

Last change on this file since 3865 was 3621, checked in by Bruno Cornec, 10 years ago

New 3?3 banch for incorporation of latest busybox 1.25. Changing minor version to handle potential incompatibilities.

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1/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
2/*
3 * Copyright 1989 - 1991, Julianne Frances Haugh <jockgrrl@austin.rr.com>
4 * All rights reserved.
5 *
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19 * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
20 * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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29 */
30
31#include "libbb.h"
32
33/* Become the user and group(s) specified by PW. */
34void FAST_FUNC change_identity(const struct passwd *pw)
35{
36 int res;
37
38 res = initgroups(pw->pw_name, pw->pw_gid);
39 endgrent(); /* helps to close a fd used internally by libc */
40
41 if (res != 0) {
42 /*
43 * If initgroups() fails because a system call is unimplemented
44 * then we are running on a Linux kernel compiled without multiuser
45 * support (CONFIG_MULTIUSER is not defined).
46 *
47 * If we are running without multiuser support *and* the target uid
48 * already matches the current uid then we can skip the change of
49 * identity.
50 */
51 if (errno == ENOSYS && pw->pw_uid == getuid()) {
52 return;
53 }
54
55 bb_perror_msg_and_die("can't set groups");
56 }
57
58 xsetgid(pw->pw_gid);
59 xsetuid(pw->pw_uid);
60}
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