Drop privileges

5 files changed, 59 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1021231..bc7d147 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ PROGSRC=\
     https.cpp \
     http_debian10.cpp \
     plugin.cpp \
+    privileges.cpp \
     server.cpp \
     stringutil.cpp
 
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 26cd06d..42ac228 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Certbot: https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/debianbuster-other
 Webbox
 Debian 10
 
-drop privileges: www-data,www-data, ...?
 Speed up DocRoot, use string_view
 read: The socket was closed due to a timeout
diff --git a/privileges.cpp b/privileges.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94f1fed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/privileges.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#include "privileges.h"
+
+#include <cstdlib>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <string>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "config.h"
+
+using namespace std::string_literals;
+
+namespace {
+
+ int get_number_from_process(std::string command) {
+  char value[100];
+
+  FILE* p = popen(command.data(), "r");
+  if (p == NULL)
+   throw std::runtime_error("Error executing: "s + command);
+
+  if (fgets(value, sizeof(value), p) == NULL)
+   throw std::runtime_error("Error reading from command: "s + command);
+
+  pclose(p);
+
+  return atoi(value);
+ }
+
+}
+
+void drop_privileges(const Config& config)
+{
+ // skip when run as user
+ if (geteuid() != 0) {
+  std::cout << "Note: not running as root -> not dropping privileges" << std::endl;
+  return;
+ }
+
+ int gid = get_number_from_process("id -g "s + config.Group());
+ if (setgid(gid) == -1)
+  throw std::runtime_error("setgid()");
+ 
+ int uid = get_number_from_process("id -u "s + config.User());
+ if (setuid(uid) == -1)
+  throw std::runtime_error("setuid()");
+}
+
diff --git a/privileges.h b/privileges.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c436dda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/privileges.h
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#include "config.h"
+
+void drop_privileges(const Config& config);
diff --git a/server.cpp b/server.cpp
index bbe7223..91ee9e8 100644
--- a/server.cpp
+++ b/server.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 #include "http.h"
 #include "https.h"
+#include "privileges.h"
 
 namespace beast = boost::beast;         // from <boost/beast.hpp>
 namespace http = beast::http;           // from <boost/beast/http.hpp>
@@ -46,6 +47,9 @@ int server(Config& config)
   servers.back()->start();
  }
 
+ // set UID, GID
+ drop_privileges(config);
+
  // Run the I/O service on the requested number of threads
  std::vector<std::thread> v;
  v.reserve(threads - 1);