/* chroot LD_PRELOAD wrapper to safely chroot any application * * (C) 2004 Henrik Nordstrom * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject * to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY * CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, * TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE * SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * * Usage: * * This application is used as a LD_PRELOAD library to make any shared * executable chroot itself and drop privileges in a safe manner after * any dynamic linking has taken place. * * A number of environment variables is used to control how the * application is chrooted: * * CHROOT_ROOT The path to where the application is to be chrooted * (required) * * CHROOT_USER The user to run the application as (defaults to "nobody" * if not defined) * * LD_PRELOAD Must include this application * * Diagnostics: * * If there is any problem chrooting the application an error message is * printed on stderr, and execution of the application is terminated. * * Compiling: * * g++ -fpic -shared -o chroot_safe.so chroot_safe.cpp * * Suggested use: * * #!/bin/sh * if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then * echo "Usage: $0 user root application ..." >&2 * exit 1 * fi * CHROOT_USER="$1"; export CHROOT_USER * CHROOT_ROOT="$2"; export CHROOT_ROOT * shift ; shift * LD_PRELOAD="/path/to/chroot_safe.so"; export LD_PRELOAD * exec "$@" */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include class automatic_chroot { private: static void failure(char *msg) { char *error = strerror(errno); write(2, msg, strlen(msg)); if (errno != 0) { write(2, ": ", 2); write(2, error, strlen(error)); } write(2, "\n", 1); _exit(1); } public: automatic_chroot() { putenv("LD_PRELOAD"); char *root = getenv("CHROOT_ROOT"); if (root == NULL) failure("CHROOT_ROOT not defined"); char *user = getenv("CHROOT_USER"); if (user == NULL) user = "nobody"; struct passwd *pwd = getpwnam(user); if (pwd == NULL) failure("User not found in /etc/passwd"); if (setgid(pwd->pw_gid)) failure("setgid failure"); if (initgroups(user, pwd->pw_gid)) failure("initgroups failure"); if (chdir(root)) failure("chdir failure"); if (chroot(".")) failure("chroot failure"); if (setuid(pwd->pw_uid)) failure("setresuid failure"); putenv("CHROOT_ROOT"); putenv("CHROOT_USER"); } }; static class automatic_chroot do_chroot;