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authorSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>2022-08-16 22:06:15 -0700
committerSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>2022-08-16 22:11:24 -0700
commit7561896529a7af05201dc31e959a05897ef99e19 (patch)
tree14514b088f45d4fecd3b7a6ede5e0a99f6c10f6a /libpam/pam_modutil_priv.c
parentd071f8c9829cbd60e2a98ab5e6b1ddfdffb9b549 (diff)
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Merge new upstream version 1.5.2.
Diffstat (limited to 'libpam/pam_modutil_priv.c')
-rw-r--r--libpam/pam_modutil_priv.c17
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libpam/pam_modutil_priv.c b/libpam/pam_modutil_priv.c
index e22fab1a..a463e06a 100644
--- a/libpam/pam_modutil_priv.c
+++ b/libpam/pam_modutil_priv.c
@@ -107,11 +107,20 @@ int pam_modutil_drop_priv(pam_handle_t *pamh,
* We should care to leave process credentials in consistent state.
* That is, e.g. if change_gid() succeeded but change_uid() failed,
* we should try to restore old gid.
+ *
+ * We try to add the supplementary groups on a best-effort
+ * basis. If it fails, it's not fatal: we fall back to using an
+ * empty list.
*/
- if (setgroups(0, NULL)) {
- pam_syslog(pamh, LOG_ERR,
- "pam_modutil_drop_priv: setgroups failed: %m");
- return cleanup(p);
+ if (initgroups(pw->pw_name, pw->pw_gid)) {
+ pam_syslog(pamh, LOG_WARNING,
+ "pam_modutil_drop_priv: initgroups failed: %m");
+
+ if (setgroups(0, NULL)) {
+ pam_syslog(pamh, LOG_ERR,
+ "pam_modutil_drop_priv: setgroups failed: %m");
+ return cleanup(p);
+ }
}
if (change_gid(pw->pw_gid, &p->old_gid)) {
pam_syslog(pamh, LOG_ERR,