unix: call setgoups before calling setuid/setgid

[saghul]

Partial fix for #1093

Shamelessly taken from: rust-lang/rust#12085

/cc @indutny

If you have a few milliseconds to spare, it'd be great to get your input, @bnoordhuis.

As for the dropping caps part, I'll need to look into that, doesn't look anywhere straightforward :-/

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[indutny]

Please add space between: ...SETUID | ...SETGID

[indutny]

Minor style nit, otherwise LGTM. But yeah, having @bnoordhuis opinion on this would be totally cool!

[saghul]

Force pushed addressing feedback, thanks @indutny!

[bnoordhuis]

Can be shortened to SAVE_ERRNO(setgroups(0, NULL)) but apart from that LGTM.

[saghul]

Thanks Ben, will fix.
On Feb 10, 2014 6:55 PM, "Ben Noordhuis" notifications@github.com wrote:

In src/unix/process.c:

@@ -330,6 +330,20 @@ static void uv__process_child_init(const uv_process_options_t* options,
_exit(127);
}

• if (options->flags & (UV_PROCESS_SETUID | UV_PROCESS_SETGID)) {
• /* When dropping privileges from root, the setgroups call will

• \* remove any extraneous groups. If we don't call this, then
  

• \* even though our uid has dropped, we may still have groups
  

• \* that enable us to do super-user things. This will fail if we
  

• \* aren't root, so don't bother checking the return value, this
  

• \* is just done as an optimistic privilege dropping function.
  

• */
  

• int saved_errno;
• saved_errno = errno;
• setgroups(0, NULL);
• errno = saved_errno;

Can be shortened to SAVE_ERRNO(setgroups(0, NULL)) but apart from that
LGTM.

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[bnoordhuis]

Change itself LGTM but as food for thought, you may want to consider adding an API that lets the user retain some or all of the ancillary groups. Ditto for capabilities.

[saghul]

Thanks guys! Landed as 66ab389. I also created #1106 to track the Linux capabilites part and the API suggesting by Ben.