Deal with _POSIX_SAVED_IDS when relinquishing privileges use MAXHOSTNAMELEN $OpenBSD: patch-unix_init_c,v 1.1.1.1 2001/07/13 02:27:16 fgsch Exp $ --- unix/init.c.orig Sun Aug 20 15:30:24 1995 +++ unix/init.c Thu Jul 12 21:56:10 2001 @@ -210,7 +210,8 @@ 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)); @@ -272,8 +273,10 @@ 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) @@ -371,8 +374,10 @@ usysdep_exit (fsuccess) boolean fsysdep_other_config (z) const char *z; { - (void) setuid (getuid ()); + (void) setegid (getgid ()); (void) setgid (getgid ()); + (void) seteuid (getuid ()); + (void) setuid (getuid ()); return TRUE; }