-/* $OpenBSD: privsep.c,v 1.41 2016/07/21 07:22:38 deraadt Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: privsep.c,v 1.42 2016/07/24 22:46:32 deraadt Exp $ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 2003 Can Erkin Acar
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oset, NULL);
/*
- * Parent, attempt to drop privs and chroot. If any of this
- * fails that is OK, safety is still provided by pledge(2).
+ * If run as regular user, packet parser will rely on
+ * pledge(2). If we are root, we want to chroot also..
*/
+ if (getuid() != 0)
+ return (0);
+
pw = getpwnam("_tcpdump");
if (pw == NULL)
- return (0);
+ errx(1, "unknown user _tcpdump");
/* Attempt to chroot */
if (chroot(pw->pw_dir) == -1)
- return (0);
+ errx(1, "unable to chroot");
if (chdir("/") == -1)
- return (0);
+ err(1, "unable to chdir");
/* drop to _tcpdump */
if (setgroups(1, &pw->pw_gid) == -1)
- return (0);
+ err(1, "setgroups() failed");
if (setresgid(pw->pw_gid, pw->pw_gid, pw->pw_gid) == -1)
- return (0);
+ err(1, "setresgid() failed");
if (setresuid(pw->pw_uid, pw->pw_uid, pw->pw_uid) == -1)
- return (0);
+ err(1, "setresuid() failed");
return (0);
}