From: Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net>
To: Kevin Qu <rofail@gmail.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to get right euid?
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 09:19:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100102151928.GB401@unpythonic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78aa970c1001020516m3d2255fj38f02629e7d740c8@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 09:16:42PM +0800, Kevin Qu wrote:
> sudo echo "some thing" > /proc/my_file
>
> It denied. (But it works when I su to superuser and do so.)
>
> So I checked the current_euid(),
> but it returns 1000 (not 0),Why?
This may be due to a misunderstanding of how shell redirects work.
Probably current_euid() is returning exactly the right thing.
When you execute
some command line > somefile
the shell opens somefile for writing and makes it be fd 1 (stdout) using
dup2. Then it execs 'some' with the argument array being
['some', 'command', 'line'].
So consider your sudo: The shell, running as user 1000, opens
'somefile' for writing, then execs 'sudo' which happens to be setuid
root.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-02 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-02 13:16 how to get right euid? Kevin Qu
2010-01-02 15:19 ` Jeff Epler [this message]
2010-01-05 16:00 ` David Howells
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