// This file is part of BOINC. // http://boinc.berkeley.edu // Copyright (C) 2008 University of California // // BOINC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it // under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License // as published by the Free Software Foundation, // either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. // // BOINC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. // See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License // along with BOINC. If not, see . // switcher.C // // When run as // switcher Full-Path Executable-Name X1 ... Xn // runs program at Full-Path with args X1. ... Xn // note that the executable name nust be specified twice: // once as part of the Full_Path and again as just the name #include #include #include #include #include // for MAXPATHLEN #include // getpwuid #include int main(int argc, char** argv) { passwd *pw; group *grp; char user_name[256], group_name[256]; strcpy(user_name, "boinc_project"); strcpy(group_name, "boinc_project"); #if 0 // For debugging only char current_dir[MAXPATHLEN]; getcwd( current_dir, sizeof(current_dir)); fprintf(stderr, "current directory = %s\n", current_dir); for (int i=0; ipw_name); grp = getgrgid(getgid()); if (grp) strcpy(group_name, grp->gr_gid); #endif // We are running setuid root, so setgid() sets real group ID, // effective group ID and saved set_group-ID for this process grp = getgrnam(group_name); if (grp) setgid(grp->gr_gid); // We are running setuid root, so setuid() sets real user ID, // effective user ID and saved set_user-ID for this process pw = getpwnam(user_name); if (pw) setuid(pw->pw_uid); execv(argv[1], argv+2); // If we got here execv failed fprintf(stderr, "Process creation (%s) failed: errno=%d\n", argv[1], errno); }