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authorHisham Muhammad <hisham@gobolinux.org>2017-07-26 15:40:55 -0300
committerHisham Muhammad <hisham@gobolinux.org>2017-07-26 15:40:55 -0300
commit543d65c6ab767a53844c28d9e887440dec90da1c (patch)
tree8f3dd30712aca174dd621f21e35e07a99164db70 /TraceScreen.c
parentf205f7004c2530a499175ad240e0d83e484a0961 (diff)
Security review: make privilege dropping-restoring optional.
This is/was necessary only on macOS, because you needed root in order to read the process list. This was never necessary on Linux, and it also raises security concerns, so now it needs to be enabled explicitly at build time.
Diffstat (limited to 'TraceScreen.c')
-rw-r--r--TraceScreen.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/TraceScreen.c b/TraceScreen.c
index 6bb2e041..318b9091 100644
--- a/TraceScreen.c
+++ b/TraceScreen.c
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ bool TraceScreen_forkTracer(TraceScreen* this) {
this->child = fork();
if (this->child == -1) return false;
if (this->child == 0) {
- (void) seteuid(getuid());
+ CRT_dropPrivileges();
dup2(this->fdpair[1], STDERR_FILENO);
int ok = fcntl(this->fdpair[1], F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
if (ok != -1) {

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