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-rw-r--r--ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipa_webgui23
-rw-r--r--ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipa_webgui.init2
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipa_webgui b/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipa_webgui
index f7780af8..96558d57 100644
--- a/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipa_webgui
+++ b/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipa_webgui
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
-import os, sys
+import os, sys, pwd, grp
from optparse import OptionParser
import ipa.config
import traceback
@@ -119,6 +119,27 @@ def main():
sys.stderr.write("error becoming daemon: " + str(e))
sys.exit(1)
+ # Drop privileges and write our pid file only if we're running as root
+ if os.getuid() == 0:
+ # Write out our pid file
+ pidfile = open("/var/run/ipa_webgui.pid", "w")
+ pidfile.write(str(os.getpid()))
+ pidfile.close()
+
+ # Drop privs
+ apache_uid = pwd.getpwnam("apache")[2]
+ apache_gid = grp.getgrnam("apache")[2]
+
+ try:
+ os.setgid(apache_gid)
+ except OSError, e:
+ log.error("Could not set effective group id: %s" % e)
+
+ try:
+ os.setuid(apache_uid)
+ except OSError, e:
+ log.error("Could not set effective user id: %s" % e)
+
sys.path.append("/usr/share/ipa")
# this must be after sys.path is changed to work correctly
diff --git a/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipa_webgui.init b/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipa_webgui.init
index e603f9f2..42478588 100644
--- a/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipa_webgui.init
+++ b/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipa_webgui.init
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ RUNAS="apache"
start() {
echo -n $"Starting $NAME: "
- daemon --user $RUNAS $PROG
+ daemon $PROG
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/ipa_webgui || \