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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-12-22 03:00:54 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-12-22 03:00:54 +0000
commita34740287ce7a6f408b47749029e29e62a63724d (patch)
tree13f8befc1c6c0e2609a6403023c6c02fb664b6fb /sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c
parent89eb7cbe0b8c6777a04791593b7b4589ea36938f (diff)
Deal with _POSIX_SAVED_IDS when relinquishing privileges
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c')
-rw-r--r--sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c b/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c
index ad9e1385b67..1782a131b08 100644
--- a/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c
+++ b/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: dmesg.c,v 1.2 1996/06/23 14:30:08 deraadt Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: dmesg.c,v 1.3 1996/12/22 03:00:49 deraadt Exp $ */
/* $NetBSD: dmesg.c,v 1.8 1995/03/18 14:54:49 cgd Exp $ */
/*-
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static char copyright[] =
#if 0
static char sccsid[] = "@(#)dmesg.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93";
#else
-static char rcsid[] = "$OpenBSD: dmesg.c,v 1.2 1996/06/23 14:30:08 deraadt Exp $";
+static char rcsid[] = "$OpenBSD: dmesg.c,v 1.3 1996/12/22 03:00:49 deraadt Exp $";
#endif
#endif /* not lint */
@@ -105,8 +105,10 @@ main(argc, argv)
* Discard setgid privileges if not the running kernel so that bad
* guys can't print interesting stuff from kernel memory.
*/
- if (memf != NULL || nlistf != NULL)
+ if (memf != NULL || nlistf != NULL) {
+ setegid(getgid());
setgid(getgid());
+ }
/* Read in kernel message buffer, do sanity checks. */
if ((kd = kvm_open(nlistf, memf, NULL, O_RDONLY, "dmesg")) == NULL)