/* uidswap.c Author: Tatu Ylonen Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen , Espoo, Finland All rights reserved Created: Sat Sep 9 01:56:14 1995 ylo Code for uid-swapping. */ #include "includes.h" RCSID("$Id: uidswap.c,v 1.2 1999/09/30 08:34:25 deraadt Exp $"); #include "ssh.h" #include "uidswap.h" /* Note: all these functions must work in all of the following cases: 1. euid=0, ruid=0 2. euid=0, ruid!=0 3. euid!=0, ruid!=0 Additionally, they must work regardless of whether the system has POSIX saved uids or not. */ #ifdef _POSIX_SAVED_IDS /* Lets assume that posix saved ids also work with seteuid, even though that is not part of the posix specification. */ #define SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID #endif /* _POSIX_SAVED_IDS */ /* Saved effective uid. */ static uid_t saved_euid = 0; /* Temporarily changes to the given uid. If the effective user id is not root, this does nothing. This call cannot be nested. */ void temporarily_use_uid(uid_t uid) { #ifdef SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID /* Save the current euid. */ saved_euid = geteuid(); /* Set the effective uid to the given (unprivileged) uid. */ if (seteuid(uid) == -1) debug("seteuid %d: %.100s", (int)uid, strerror(errno)); #else /* SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETUID */ /* Propagate the privileged uid to all of our uids. */ if (setuid(geteuid()) < 0) debug("setuid %d: %.100s", (int)geteuid(), strerror(errno)); /* Set the effective uid to the given (unprivileged) uid. */ if (seteuid(uid) == -1) debug("seteuid %d: %.100s", (int)uid, strerror(errno)); #endif /* SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID */ } /* Restores to the original uid. */ void restore_uid() { #ifdef SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID /* Set the effective uid back to the saved uid. */ if (seteuid(saved_euid) < 0) debug("seteuid %d: %.100s", (int)saved_euid, strerror(errno)); #else /* SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID */ /* We are unable to restore the real uid to its unprivileged value. */ /* Propagate the real uid (usually more privileged) to effective uid as well. */ setuid(getuid()); #endif /* SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID */ } /* Permanently sets all uids to the given uid. This cannot be called while temporarily_use_uid is effective. */ void permanently_set_uid(uid_t uid) { if (setuid(uid) < 0) debug("setuid %d: %.100s", (int)uid, strerror(errno)); }