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main: drop privileges right after reading the config

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This is the second part of fixing bug #74.
I lets tinyproxy create its log and pid files as the
user as which it is running, so that later on at SIGHUP,
the log file can successfully be reopened.

Michael
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Michael Adam 2010-03-02 22:02:46 +01:00
parent 2235a97f05
commit 7a9abc2a04
1 changed files with 8 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -393,6 +393,14 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
exit (EX_SOFTWARE);
}
/* Switch to a different user if we're running as root */
if (geteuid () == 0) {
change_user (argv[0]);
} else {
log_message (LOG_WARNING,
"Not running as root, so not changing UID/GID.");
}
ret = setup_logging ();
if (ret != 0) {
exit (EX_SOFTWARE);
@ -438,13 +446,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
exit (EX_OSERR);
}
/* Switch to a different user if we're running as root */
if (geteuid () == 0)
change_user (argv[0]);
else
log_message (LOG_WARNING,
"Not running as root, so not changing UID/GID.");
if (child_pool_create () < 0) {
fprintf (stderr,
"%s: Could not create the pool of children.\n",