2 Template for a setuid program that calls a script.
4 The script should be in an unwritable directory and should itself
5 be unwritable. In fact all parent directories up to the root
6 should be unwritable. The script must not be setuid, that's what
9 This is a template program. You need to fill in the name of the
10 script that must be executed. This is done by changing the
11 definition of FULL_PATH below.
13 There are also some rules that should be adhered to when writing
16 The first and most important rule is to never, ever trust that the
17 user of the program will behave properly. Program defensively.
18 Check your arguments for reasonableness. If the user is allowed to
19 create files, check the names of the files. If the program depends
20 on argv[0] for the action it should perform, check it.
22 Assuming the script is a Bourne shell script, the first line of the
25 The - is important, don't omit it. If you're using esh, the first
27 #!/usr/local/bin/esh -f
28 and for ksh, the first line should be
29 #!/usr/local/bin/ksh -p
30 The script should then set the variable IFS to the string
31 consisting of <space>, <tab>, and <newline>. After this (*not*
32 before!), the PATH variable should be set to a reasonable value and
33 exported. Do not expect the PATH to have a reasonable value, so do
34 not trust the old value of PATH. You should then set the umask of
35 the program by calling
36 umask 077 # or 022 if you want the files to be readable
37 If you plan to change directories, you should either unset CDPATH
38 or set it to a good value. Setting CDPATH to just ``.'' (dot) is a
40 If, for some reason, you want to use csh, the first line should be
42 You should then set the path variable to something reasonable,
43 without trusting the inherited path. Here too, you should set the
44 umask using the command
45 umask 077 # or 022 if you want the files to be readable
51 #include <sys/types.h>
55 /* CONFIGURATION SECTION */
57 #ifndef FULL_PATH /* so that this can be specified from the Makefile */
58 /* Uncomment the following line:
59 #define FULL_PATH "/full/path/of/script"
60 * Then comment out the #error line. */
61 #error "You must define FULL_PATH somewhere"
67 /* END OF CONFIGURATION SECTION */
69 #if defined(__STDC__) && defined(__sgi)
70 #define environ _environ
73 /* don't change def_IFS */
74 char def_IFS
[] = "IFS= \t\n";
75 /* you may want to change def_PATH, but you should really change it in */
78 char def_PATH
[] = "PATH=/usr/bsd:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin";
80 char def_PATH
[] = "PATH=/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin";
82 /* don't change def_CDPATH */
83 char def_CDPATH
[] = "CDPATH=.";
84 /* don't change def_ENV */
85 char def_ENV
[] = "ENV=:";
88 This function changes all environment variables that start with LD_
89 into variables that start with XD_. This is important since we
90 don't want the script that is executed to use any funny shared
93 The other changes to the environment are, strictly speaking, not
94 needed here. They can safely be done in the script. They are done
95 here because we don't trust the script writer (just like the script
96 writer shouldn't trust the user of the script).
97 If IFS is set in the environment, set it to space,tab,newline.
98 If CDPATH is set in the environment, set it to ``.''.
99 Set PATH to a reasonable default.
105 extern char **environ
;
107 for (p
= environ
; *p
; p
++) {
108 if (strncmp(*p
, "LD_", 3) == 0)
110 else if (strncmp(*p
, "_RLD", 4) == 0)
112 else if (strncmp(*p
, "PYTHON", 6) == 0)
114 else if (strncmp(*p
, "IFS=", 4) == 0)
116 else if (strncmp(*p
, "CDPATH=", 7) == 0)
118 else if (strncmp(*p
, "ENV=", 4) == 0)
125 main(int argc
, char **argv
)
128 gid_t egid
= getegid();
129 uid_t euid
= geteuid();
133 This check should be made compile-time, but that's not possible.
134 If you're sure that you specified a full path name for FULL_PATH,
135 you can omit this check.
137 if (FULL_PATH
[0] != '/') {
138 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: %s is not a full path name\n", argv
[0],
140 fprintf(stderr
, "You can only use this wrapper if you\n");
141 fprintf(stderr
, "compile it with an absolute path.\n");
147 Check that the owner of the script is equal to either the
148 effective uid or the super user.
150 if (stat(FULL_PATH
, &statb
) < 0) {
154 if (statb
.st_uid
!= 0 && statb
.st_uid
!= euid
) {
155 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: %s has the wrong owner\n", argv
[0],
157 fprintf(stderr
, "The script should be owned by root,\n");
158 fprintf(stderr
, "and shouldn't be writeable by anyone.\n");
162 if (setregid(egid
, egid
) < 0)
164 if (setreuid(euid
, euid
) < 0)
171 while (**argv
== '-') /* don't let argv[0] start with '-' */
173 execv(FULL_PATH
, argv
);
174 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: could not execute the script\n", argv
[0]);