From d18e9a4895599a479df264a6c7380b8805abb434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Klein <michael.klein@puffin.lb.shuttle.de>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 22:15:46 +0100
Subject: add some security checks when running SUID root

on Darwin, htop needs to run with root privileges to display information
about other users processes. This commit makes running htop SUID root a
bit more safe.
---
 TraceScreen.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'TraceScreen.c')

diff --git a/TraceScreen.c b/TraceScreen.c
index ecd0c0ab..3a62eb63 100644
--- a/TraceScreen.c
+++ b/TraceScreen.c
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ void TraceScreen_run(TraceScreen* this) {
    int child = fork();
    if (child == -1) return;
    if (child == 0) {
+      seteuid(getuid());
       dup2(fdpair[1], STDERR_FILENO);
       int ok = fcntl(fdpair[1], F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
       if (ok != -1) {
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