/* Copyright (C) 1998 Joshua Sled This file is part of LibGTop 1.0. Contributed by Joshua Sled , July 1998. LibGTop is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. LibGTop is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with LibGTop; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ #include #include #include #include /* !!! THIS FUNCTION RUNS SUID ROOT - CHANGE WITH CAUTION !!! */ void glibtop_init_p (glibtop *server, const unsigned long features, const unsigned flags) { const _glibtop_init_func_t *init_fkt; if (server == NULL) glibtop_error_r (NULL, "glibtop_init_p (server == NULL)"); /* Do the initialization, but only if not already initialized. */ if ((server->flags & _GLIBTOP_INIT_STATE_SYSDEPS) == 0) { glibtop_open_p (server, "glibtop", features, flags); for (init_fkt = _glibtop_init_hook_p; *init_fkt; init_fkt++) (*init_fkt) (server); server->flags |= _GLIBTOP_INIT_STATE_SYSDEPS; } } void glibtop_open_p (glibtop *server, const char *program_name, const unsigned long features, const unsigned flags) { #ifdef LIBGTOP_ENABLE_DEBUG fprintf (stderr, "DEBUG (%d): glibtop_open_p ()\n", getpid ()); #endif /* !!! WE ARE ROOT HERE - CHANGE WITH CAUTION !!! */ server->machine->uid = getuid (); server->machine->euid = geteuid (); server->machine->gid = getgid (); server->machine->egid = getegid (); #ifdef __FreeBSD__ server->os_version_code = __FreeBSD_version; #endif /* Setup machine-specific data */ server->machine->kd = kvm_open (NULL, NULL, NULL, O_RDONLY, "kvm_open"); if (server->machine->kd == NULL) glibtop_error_io_r (server, "kvm_open"); /* Drop priviledges. */ if (setreuid (server->machine->euid, server->machine->uid)) _exit (1); if (setregid (server->machine->egid, server->machine->gid)) _exit (1); /* !!! END OF SUID ROOT PART !!! */ /* Our effective uid is now those of the user invoking the server, * so we do no longer have any priviledges. */ /* NOTE: On FreeBSD, we do not need to be suid root, we just need to * be sgid kmem. * * The server will only use setegid() to get back it's priviledges, * so it will fail if it is suid root and not sgid kmem. */ }