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+s6
+Software
+skarnet.org +

+ +

The `s6-sudoc` program

+ +

+s6-sudoc talks to a peer s6-sudod +program over a Unix socket, passing it command-line arguments, environment +variables and standard descriptors. +

+ +

Interface

+ +

+     s6-sudoc [ -e ] [ -t timeoutconn ] [ -T timeoutrun ] [ args... ]
+

+ +

s6-sudoc transmits its standard input, standard output and standard error +via fd-passing over a Unix socket that must be open on its descriptors 6 and 7. + It expects a s6-sudod process to be receiving them +on the other side.
It also transmits its command-line arguments args, and also its +environment by default. Note that s6-sudod will not necessarily accept all the +environment variables that s6-sudoc tries to transmit.
s6-sudoc waits for the server program run by s6-sudod to finish. It exits +the same exit code as the server program. If the server program is killed by a +signal, s6-sudoc kills itself with the same signal.

+ +

Options

+ +

-e : do not attempt to transmit any environment variables +to s6-sudod.
-t timeoutconn : if s6-sudod has not +managed to process the given information and start the server program after +timeoutconn milliseconds, give up. By default, timeoutconn +is 0, meaning infinite. Note that there is no reason to set up a nonzero +timeoutconn with a large value: s6-sudod is not supposed to block. +The option is only there to protect against ill-written services.
-T timeoutrun : if the server program +has not exited after timeoutrun milliseconds, give up. By +default, timeoutrun is 0, meaning infinite.

+ +

Notes

+ +

If s6-sudoc is killed, or exits after timeoutrun milliseconds, +while the server program is still running, s6-sudod will send a SIGTERM and a +SIGCONT to the server program - but this does not guarantee that it will die. +If the server program keeps running, it might still read from the file that +was s6-sudoc's stdin, or write to the files that were s6-sudoc's stdout or +stderr. This is a potential security risk. +Administrators should audit their server programs to make sure this does not +happen.
More generally, anything using signals or terminals will not be +handled transparently by the s6-sudoc + s6-sudod mechanism. The mechanism +was designed to allow programs to gain privileges in specific situations: +short-lived, simple, noninteractive processes. It was not designed to emulate +the full suid functionality and will not go out of its way to do so.

+ + + -- cgit 1.4.1

The s6-sudoc program

Interface

Options

Notes

The `s6-sudoc` program