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-rw-r--r--nscd/nscd.c43
-rw-r--r--nscd/nscd.conf4
-rw-r--r--nscd/nscd.h5
-rw-r--r--nscd/nscd_conf.c11
4 files changed, 58 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/nscd/nscd.c b/nscd/nscd.c
index 45928f0f67..bc291d81d9 100644
--- a/nscd/nscd.c
+++ b/nscd/nscd.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
    Contributed by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>, 1998.
 
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ int do_shutdown;
 int disabled_passwd;
 int disabled_group;
 int go_background = 1;
+const char *server_user;
 
 int secure[lastdb];
 int secure_in_use;
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ static const char *conffile = _PATH_NSCDCONF;
 
 static int check_pid (const char *file);
 static int write_pid (const char *file);
+static void drop_privileges (void);
 
 /* Name and version of program.  */
 static void print_version (FILE *stream, struct argp_state *state);
@@ -140,6 +142,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
       if (fork ())
 	exit (0);
 
+      setsid ();
+
       chdir ("/");
 
       openlog ("nscd", LOG_CONS | LOG_ODELAY, LOG_DAEMON);
@@ -164,6 +168,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   /* Init databases.  */
   nscd_init (conffile);
 
+  /* Change to unprivileged UID if specifed in config file */
+  if(server_user && !secure_in_use)
+    drop_privileges ();
+
   /* Handle incoming requests */
   start_threads ();
 
@@ -364,3 +372,36 @@ write_pid (const char *file)
 
   return 0;
 }
+
+/* Look up the uid and gid associated with the user we are supposed to run
+   the server as, and then call setgid(), setgroups(), and setuid().
+   Otherwise, abort- we should not run as root if the configuration file
+   specifically tells us not to. */
+
+static void
+drop_privileges (void)
+{
+  int buflen = 256;
+  char *buffer = alloca (buflen);
+  struct passwd resultbuf;
+  struct passwd *pwd;
+
+  while (__getpwnam_r (server_user, &resultbuf, buffer, buflen, &pwd) != 0
+	 && errno == ERANGE)
+    {
+      errno = 0;
+      buflen += 256;
+      buffer = alloca (buflen);
+    }
+
+  if(!pwd)
+    {
+      dbg_log (_("Failed to look up user '%s' to run server as"),
+	       server_user);
+      exit(1);
+    }
+
+  setgroups (0, NULL);
+  setgid (pwd->pw_gid);
+  setuid (pwd->pw_uid);
+}
diff --git a/nscd/nscd.conf b/nscd/nscd.conf
index 0e43da33f5..226dda377f 100644
--- a/nscd/nscd.conf
+++ b/nscd/nscd.conf
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 #	logfile			<file>
 #	debug-level		<level>
 #	threads			<#threads to use>
+#	server-user             <user to run server as instead of root>
+#		server-user is ignored if nscd is started with -S parameters
 #
 #       enable-cache		<service> <yes|no>
 #	positive-time-to-live	<service> <time in seconds>
@@ -21,7 +23,7 @@
 
 #	logfile			/var/log/nscd.log
 #	threads			6
-
+#	server-user		nobody
 	debug-level		0
 
 	enable-cache		passwd		yes
diff --git a/nscd/nscd.h b/nscd/nscd.h
index 36fd1b3002..ab93a9ac3e 100644
--- a/nscd/nscd.h
+++ b/nscd/nscd.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
    Contributed by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>, 1998.
 
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ extern int nthreads;
 extern int secure[lastdb];
 extern int secure_in_use; /* Is one of the above 1 ? */
 
+/* User name to run server processes as */
+extern const char *server_user;
+
 /* Prototypes for global functions.  */
 
 /* nscd.c */
diff --git a/nscd/nscd_conf.c b/nscd/nscd_conf.c
index 010b905fe8..9b8d75ce23 100644
--- a/nscd/nscd_conf.c
+++ b/nscd/nscd_conf.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (c) 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
-   Contributed by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>, 1998.
+   Contributed by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>, 1998.
 
    The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
@@ -176,6 +176,13 @@ nscd_parse_file (const char *fname, struct database dbs[lastdb])
 	  if (nthreads == -1)
 	    nthreads = MAX (atol (arg1), lastdb);
 	}
+      else if (strcmp (entry, "server-user") == 0)
+        {
+          if (!arg1)
+            dbg_log (_("Must specify user name for server-user option"), arg1);
+          else
+            server_user = strdup (arg1);
+        }
       else
 	dbg_log (_("Unknown option: %s %s %s"), entry, arg1, arg2);
     }