From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] rpcbind: drop supplemental groups
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:55:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F591CD5.7070102@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331217450-20798-1-git-send-email-steved@redhat.com>
On 03/08/2012 09:37 AM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> Drop out of the 'root' group to ensure the process does
> not have any access to writable or readable files
> to that group.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Committed....
steved.
> ---
> src/rpcbind.c | 4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/rpcbind.c b/src/rpcbind.c
> index 24e069b..9a0504d 100644
> --- a/src/rpcbind.c
> +++ b/src/rpcbind.c
> @@ -236,6 +236,10 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> syslog(LOG_ERR, "setgid to '%s' (%d) failed: %m", id, p->pw_gid);
> exit(1);
> }
> + if (setgroups(0, NULL) == -1) {
> + syslog(LOG_ERR, "dropping supplemental groups failed: %m");
> + exit(1);
> + }
> if (setuid(p->pw_uid) == -1) {
> syslog(LOG_ERR, "setuid to '%s' (%d) failed: %m", id, p->pw_uid);
> exit(1);
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-08 20:55 UTC|newest]
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2012-03-08 14:37 [PATCH 1/1] rpcbind: drop supplemental groups Steve Dickson
2012-03-08 20:55 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
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