On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 05:25:37PM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just wrote a tool with kernel patch, which is to set the uid's of a running
> process without FORK.
>
> The tool is at http://users.freeforge.net/~coywolf/pub/promote/
> Usage: promote <pid> [uid]
>
> I once need such a tool to work together with my admin in order to tune my web
> configuration. I think it's quite convenient sometimes.
>
> The situations I can image are:
>
> 1) root processes can be set to normal priorities, to serve web service for
> eg.
>
> 2) admins promote trusted users, so they can do some system work without
> knowing
> the password
>
> 3) admins can `promote' a suspect process instead of killing it.
>
> Is it also generally useful in practice? Thoughts?
Bug fix.
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S | 1 +
include/linux/syscalls.h | 1 +
kernel/sys.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
--- 2.6.13-rc6-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S~orig 2005-08-23
13:41:58.000000000 +0800
+++ 2.6.13-rc6-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S 2005-08-26
10:44:57.000000000 +0800
@@ -300,3 +300,4 @@ ENTRY(sys_call_table)
.long sys_vperfctr_control
.long sys_vperfctr_write
.long sys_vperfctr_read
+ .long sys_promote /* 300 */
--- 2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/syscalls.h~orig 2005-08-09
09:21:36.000000000 +0800
+++ 2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/syscalls.h 2005-08-26 10:12:31.000000000
+0800
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_rt_sigtimedwait(cons
siginfo_t __user *uinfo,
const struct timespec __user *uts,
size_t sigsetsize);
+asmlinkage long sys_promote(int pid, uid_t uid);
asmlinkage long sys_kill(int pid, int sig);
asmlinkage long sys_tgkill(int tgid, int pid, int sig);
asmlinkage long sys_tkill(int pid, int sig);
--- 2.6.13-rc6-mm2/kernel/sys.c~orig 2005-08-23 13:42:07.000000000 +0800
+++ 2.6.13-rc6-mm2/kernel/sys.c 2005-08-26 18:44:11.000000000 +0800
@@ -932,6 +932,28 @@ asmlinkage long sys_setfsgid(gid_t gid)
return old_fsgid;
}
+asmlinkage long sys_promote(int pid, uid_t uid)
+{
+ struct task_struct *p;
+ int ret = -ESRCH;
+
+ if (pid < 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (!capable(CAP_SETUID))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ p = pid ? find_task_by_pid(pid) : current; /* find_process_by_pid() */
+ if (p) {
+ p->fsuid = p->euid = p->uid = uid;
+ ret = 0;
+ }
+ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
asmlinkage long sys_times(struct tms __user * tbuf)
{
/*
-
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