On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 02:03:37PM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 02:21:51AM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> > "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Running the 12/12 snapshot, amd64.
> > >
> > > I'm setting up the looking glass CGI included with httpd. Requests for
> > > ping and traceroute fail.
> > >
> > > Per bgplg(8), I've set mode 4555 on the static binaries:
> > >
> > > ls -lai /var/www/bin/
> > > total 1844
> > > 77958 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  daemon     512 Dec 11 17:47 .
> > > 77956 drwxr-xr-x  15 root  daemon     512 Dec 12 15:35 ..
> > > 77959 -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  bin     256240 Dec  8 12:09 bgpctl
> > > 77978 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  bin     273200 Dec  8 15:36 femail
> > > 77960 -r-sr-xr-x   2 root  bin     318320 Dec  8 12:09 ping
> > > 77960 -r-sr-xr-x   2 root  bin     318320 Dec  8 12:09 ping6
> > > 77961 -r-sr-xr-x   2 root  bin     281168 Dec  8 12:09 traceroute
> > > 77961 -r-sr-xr-x   2 root  bin     281168 Dec  8 12:09 traceroute6
> > >
> > > Ping and traceroute run fine as root. As an unprivileged user, though,
> > > I get:
> > >
> > > ./ping 8.8.8.8
> > > ping: socket: Permission denied
> > >
> > > $ ./traceroute 8.8.8.8
> > > traceroute: unable to revoke privs: Operation not permitted
> > >
> > > Any suggestions? Or have I found a bug?
> > 
> > Is the partition that holds /var/www/bin mounted "nosuid"?
> 
> (Replying mostly for the archives.)
> 
> Yes, /var is mounted nosuid.
> 
> bgplg(8) has lovely detailed instructions on how to set it up,
> including setting the suid bit, but don't mention that detail.
> 

And, for the sake of completeness, it should mention that detail.

Does the attached wording sound right?

Reyk

Index: usr.bin/bgplg/bgplg.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/bgplg/bgplg.8,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.15 bgplg.8
--- usr.bin/bgplg/bgplg.8       10 Sep 2015 15:16:44 -0000      1.15
+++ usr.bin/bgplg/bgplg.8       14 Dec 2016 13:53:14 -0000
@@ -153,6 +153,12 @@ To enable the corresponding functionalit
 .Xr chmod 1
 utility to manually set the file permission mode to 0555 or anything
 appropriate.
+Some of these executables need the set-user-ID bit;
+enabling them requires to mount the filesystem of
+.Pa /var/www
+without the
+.Ic nosuid
+option.
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -width "/var/www/bin/traceroute6XX" -compact
 .It Pa /var/www/cgi-bin/bgplg

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