Changeset a77080d567d0ba6598a06af6f02c7ef24bfbadcb

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09/06/08 20:50:41 (4 months ago)
Author:
Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>
git-committer:
Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com> 1213037441 +0300
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[bf19c9ed7a2d45d6a76ab80da12d1ef87315d540]

git-author:
Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com> 1213037369 +0300
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Support for sudo

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  • src/network/rootwrap.c

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    206206#endif 
    207207 
    208     setuid (getuid ()); 
     208    uid_t uid = getuid (); 
     209    if (uid == 0) 
     210    { 
     211        const char *sudo = getenv ("SUDO_UID"); 
     212        if (sudo) 
     213            uid = atoi (sudo); 
     214    } 
     215    if (uid == 0) 
     216    { 
     217        fprintf (stderr, "Cannot determine unprivileged user for VLC!\n"); 
     218        exit (1); 
     219    } 
     220    setuid (uid); 
    209221 
    210222    if (!setuid (0)) /* sanity check: we cannot get root back */ 
    211223        exit (1); 
    212224 
    213     /* Yeah, the user can force to execute just about anything from here. 
     225    /* Yeah, the user can execute just about anything from here. 
    214226     * But we've dropped privileges, so it does not matter. */ 
    215227    if (strlen (argv[0]) < sizeof ("-wrapper"))