Event though we've failed to open the backlight normally, we may still be
running under a suid-root xserver, so drop any elevated rights before
executing what we hope will be pkxec.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com>
---
src/backlight.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/backlight.c b/src/backlight.c
index 518d756..dc26307 100644
--- a/src/backlight.c
+++ b/src/backlight.c
@@ -295,6 +295,10 @@ static int __backlight_helper_init(struct backlight *b,
char *iface)
switch ((b->pid = fork())) {
case 0:
+ if (setgid(getgid()) != 0)
+ _exit(127);
+ if (setuid(getuid()) != 0)
+ _exit(127);
close(fds[1]);
dup2(fds[0], 0);
close(fds[0]);
--
1.8.5.3
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