// Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing // http://boinc.berkeley.edu // Copyright (C) 2005 University of California // // This 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 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. // // This software 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. // // To view the GNU Lesser General Public License visit // http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html // or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., // 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA // switcher.C // // When run as // switcher Path X1 ... Xn // runs program at Path with args X1. ... Xn #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); }