Deal with _POSIX_SAVED_IDS when relinquishing privileges use MAXHOSTNAMELEN $OpenBSD: patch-unix_init_c,v 1.2 2003/12/14 01:39:18 naddy Exp $ --- unix/init.c.orig 2003-05-29 08:08:49.000000000 +0200 +++ unix/init.c 2003-11-11 21:28:58.000000000 +0100 @@ -209,7 +209,8 @@ usysdep_initialize (puuconf,iflags) if (iuuconf == UUCONF_NOT_FOUND) { #if HAVE_GETHOSTNAME - char ab[256]; +#include + char ab[MAXHOSTNAMELEN]; if (gethostname (ab, sizeof ab - 1) < 0) ulog (LOG_FATAL, "gethostname: %s", strerror (errno)); @@ -271,8 +272,10 @@ usysdep_initialize (puuconf,iflags) && geteuid () == 0) { q = getpwnam (OWNER); - if (q != NULL) + if (q != NULL) { + seteuid (q->pw_uid); setuid (q->pw_uid); + } } if ((iflags & INIT_GETCWD) != 0) @@ -370,8 +373,10 @@ usysdep_exit (fsuccess) boolean fsysdep_other_config (z) const char *z ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED; { - (void) setuid (getuid ()); + (void) setegid (getgid ()); (void) setgid (getgid ()); + (void) seteuid (getuid ()); + (void) setuid (getuid ()); return TRUE; }