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| author | Rom Lemarchand <romlem@google.com> | 2013-01-11 14:56:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Rom Lemarchand <romlem@google.com> | 2013-01-28 13:12:37 -0800 |
| commit | cfb5ec3c283bb0fd5a99d6ed282a508be309d291 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a043ee4378c8b9b85cc84996703712c978f7a79 /logwrapper | |
| parent | 611f5b4b938f2ffcf2a2e71a847e4fd12587ca4b (diff) | |
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logwrap: remove unnecessary call to setuid/setgid
Android allows all users to write to log.
The setuid/setgid call is unneeded and could cause unintended
side effects when called from daemons or programs that need
to run as root.
Change-Id: I3bdb26eaa4363ef037615e45a1a5cb1ceb4088f3
Diffstat (limited to 'logwrapper')
| -rw-r--r-- | logwrapper/logwrap.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/logwrapper/logwrap.c b/logwrapper/logwrap.c index 09f8b81..ef457de 100644 --- a/logwrapper/logwrap.c +++ b/logwrapper/logwrap.c @@ -262,12 +262,6 @@ int logwrap(int argc, char* argv[], int *status) { signal_fd_write = sockets[0]; - // switch user and group to "log" - // this may fail if we are not root, - // but in that case switching user/group is unnecessary - setgid(AID_LOG); - setuid(AID_LOG); - rc = parent(argv[0], parent_ptty, sockets[1], pid, status); } |