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+/*
+ * Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
+ * Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
+ * All rights reserved
+ * Created: Sat Sep 9 01:56:14 1995 ylo
+ * Code for uid-swapping.
+ */
+
+#include "includes.h"
+RCSID("$Id: uidswap.c,v 1.5 1999/11/24 19:53:54 markus Exp $");
+
+#include "ssh.h"
+#include "uidswap.h"
+
+/*
+ * Note: all these functions must work in all of the following cases:
+ * 1. euid=0, ruid=0
+ * 2. euid=0, ruid!=0
+ * 3. euid!=0, ruid!=0
+ * Additionally, they must work regardless of whether the system has
+ * POSIX saved uids or not.
+ */
+
+#ifdef _POSIX_SAVED_IDS
+/* Lets assume that posix saved ids also work with seteuid, even though that
+ is not part of the posix specification. */
+#define SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID
+#endif /* _POSIX_SAVED_IDS */
+
+/* Saved effective uid. */
+static uid_t saved_euid = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Temporarily changes to the given uid. If the effective user
+ * id is not root, this does nothing. This call cannot be nested.
+ */
+void
+temporarily_use_uid(uid_t uid)
+{
+#ifdef SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID
+ /* Save the current euid. */
+ saved_euid = geteuid();
+
+ /* Set the effective uid to the given (unprivileged) uid. */
+ if (seteuid(uid) == -1)
+ debug("seteuid %d: %.100s", (int) uid, strerror(errno));
+#else /* SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETUID */
+ /* Propagate the privileged uid to all of our uids. */
+ if (setuid(geteuid()) < 0)
+ debug("setuid %d: %.100s", (int) geteuid(), strerror(errno));
+
+ /* Set the effective uid to the given (unprivileged) uid. */
+ if (seteuid(uid) == -1)
+ debug("seteuid %d: %.100s", (int) uid, strerror(errno));
+#endif /* SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID */
+}
+
+/*
+ * Restores to the original uid.
+ */
+void
+restore_uid()
+{
+#ifdef SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID
+ /* Set the effective uid back to the saved uid. */
+ if (seteuid(saved_euid) < 0)
+ debug("seteuid %d: %.100s", (int) saved_euid, strerror(errno));
+#else /* SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID */
+ /*
+ * We are unable to restore the real uid to its unprivileged value.
+ * Propagate the real uid (usually more privileged) to effective uid
+ * as well.
+ */
+ setuid(getuid());
+#endif /* SAVED_IDS_WORK_WITH_SETEUID */
+}
+
+/*
+ * Permanently sets all uids to the given uid. This cannot be
+ * called while temporarily_use_uid is effective.
+ */
+void
+permanently_set_uid(uid_t uid)
+{
+ if (setuid(uid) < 0)
+ debug("setuid %d: %.100s", (int) uid, strerror(errno));
+}