* First step towards setuid/setgid support: a setuid/setgid wrapper

program.

  The Nix store cannot directly support setuid binaries for a number
  of reasons:

  - Builds are generally not performed as root (and they shouldn't
    be), so the builder cannot chown/chmod executables to the right
    setuid ownership.

  - Unpacking a NAR archive containing a setuid binary would only work
    when Nix is run as root.

  - Worst of all, setuid binaries don't fit in the purely functional
    model: if a security bug is discovered in a setuid binary, that
    binary should be removed from the system to prevent users from
    calling it.  But we cannot garbage collect it unless all
    references to it are gone, which might never happen.  Of course,
    we could just remove setuid permission, but that would also be
    impure.

  So the solution is to keep setuid-ness out of the Nix store.
  Rather, for programs that we want to execute as setuid, we generate
  wrapper programs (as root) that are setuid and do an execve() to
  call the real, non-setuid program in the Nix store.

  That's what setuid-wrapper does.  It determines its own name (e.g.,
  /var/setuid-wrappers/passwd), reads the name of the wrapped program
  from <self>.real (e.g., /var/setuid-wrappers/passwd.real, which
  might contain /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/passwd), and executes
  it.  Thus, the non-setuid passwd in the Nix store would be executed
  with the effective user set to root.

  Setuid-wrapper also performs a few security checks to prevent it
  from reading a fake <self>.real file through hard-linking tricks.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=7157
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Eelco Dolstra 2006-11-28 13:36:27 +00:00
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#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <dirent.h>
extern char **environ;
static char * wrapperDir = "/home/root/nixos/helpers/setuid";
int main(int argc, char * * argv)
{
char self[PATH_MAX];
int len = readlink("/proc/self/exe", self, sizeof(self) - 1);
if (len == -1) abort();
self[len] = 0;
//printf("self = %s, ch = %c\n", self, self[strlen(wrapperDir)]);
/* Make sure that we are being executed from the right location,
i.e., `wrapperDir'. This is to prevent someone from
creating hard link `X' from some other location, along with a
false `X.real' file, to allow arbitrary programs from being
executed setuid. */
if ((strncmp(self, wrapperDir, sizeof(wrapperDir)) != 0) ||
(self[strlen(wrapperDir)] != '/'))
abort();
/* Make *really* *really* sure that we were executed as `self',
and not, say, as some other setuid program. That is, our
effective uid/gid should match the uid/gid of `self'. */
//printf("%d %d\n", geteuid(), getegid());
struct stat st;
if (lstat(self, &st) == -1) abort();
//printf("%d %d\n", st.st_uid, st.st_gid);
if ((st.st_mode & S_ISUID) != 0 &&
st.st_uid != geteuid())
abort();
if ((st.st_mode & S_ISGID) != 0 &&
st.st_gid != getegid())
abort();
/* And, of course, we shouldn't be writable. */
if (st.st_mode & (S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH))
abort();
/* Read the path of the real (wrapped) program from <self>.real. */
char realFN[PATH_MAX + 10];
if (snprintf(realFN, sizeof(realFN), "%s.real", self) >= sizeof(realFN))
abort();
int fdSelf = open(realFN, O_RDONLY);
if (fdSelf == -1) abort();
char real[PATH_MAX];
len = read(fdSelf, real, PATH_MAX);
if (len == -1) abort();
if (len == sizeof(real)) abort();
real[len] = 0;
//printf("real = %s, len = %d\n", real, len);
execve(real, argv, environ);
exit(1);
}