Signed-off-by: Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I'm not sure how useful this is. I'd like to start git-daemon as root, so it can store it's PID in /var/run, but I don't want it to keep root privileges. My git repos are world readable, so for serving them, root privileges aren't needed at all. What do you think? Documentation/git-daemon.txt | 8 +++++++- daemon.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index 0f7d274..a8d75d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git-daemon' [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all] [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths] [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path] - [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file] [directory...] + [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file] + [--user=u] [--group=g] [directory...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -93,6 +94,11 @@ OPTIONS --pid-file=file:: Save the process id in 'file'. +--user=u:: +--group=g:: + If both options are given, `git-daemon` will change it's uid and gid to + the ones of 'u' and 'g' before entering the server loop. + <directory>:: A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c index 012936f..78658c1 100644 --- a/daemon.c +++ b/daemon.c @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ #include <netdb.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #include <arpa/inet.h> #include <syslog.h> +#include <pwd.h> +#include <grp.h> #include "pkt-line.h" #include "cache.h" #include "exec_cmd.h" @@ -14,12 +16,15 @@ #include "exec_cmd.h" static int log_syslog; static int verbose; static int reuseaddr; +static const char *user; +static const char *group; static const char daemon_usage[] = "git-daemon [--verbose] [--syslog] [--inetd | --port=n] [--export-all]\n" " [--timeout=n] [--init-timeout=n] [--strict-paths]\n" " [--base-path=path] [--user-path | --user-path=path]\n" -" [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file] [directory...]"; +" [--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=file]\n" +" [--user=u] [--group=g] [directory...]"; /* List of acceptable pathname prefixes */ static char **ok_paths; @@ -701,6 +706,24 @@ static void store_pid(const char *path) fclose(f); } +static void drop_privileges() +{ + struct passwd *p; + struct group *g; + + p = getpwnam (user); + if (!p) + die("user not found - %s", user); + + g = getgrnam (group); + if (!g) + die("group not found - %s", group); + + if (initgroups (p->pw_name, g->gr_gid) || setgid (g->gr_gid) || + setuid (p->pw_uid)) + die("cannot drop privileges"); +} + static int serve(int port) { int socknum, *socklist; @@ -709,6 +732,9 @@ static int serve(int port) if (socknum == 0) die("unable to allocate any listen sockets on port %u", port); + if (user && group) + drop_privileges(); + return service_loop(socknum, socklist); } @@ -791,6 +817,14 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) log_syslog = 1; continue; } + if (!strncmp(arg, "--user=", 7)) { + user = arg + 7; + continue; + } + if (!strncmp(arg, "--group=", 8)) { + group = arg + 8; + continue; + } if (!strcmp(arg, "--")) { ok_paths = &argv[i+1]; break; @@ -802,6 +836,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) usage(daemon_usage); } + if (!user ^ !group) + die("either set both user and group or none of them"); + if (log_syslog) { openlog("git-daemon", 0, LOG_DAEMON); set_die_routine(daemon_die); -- 1.4.2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html