source: MondoRescue/branches/3.3/mindi-busybox/libbb/change_identity.c@ 3621

Last change on this file since 3621 was 3621, checked in by Bruno Cornec, 7 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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22 * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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28 * SUCH DAMAGE.
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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