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| author |   Dave Barach <dave@barachs.net> | 2016-05-31 14:05:46 -0400 |
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| committer |   Keith Burns <alagalah@gmail.com> | 2016-06-01 19:21:58 +0000 |
| commit | db0cf7963b971ebb393d105a0a29fa7bd926521c (patch) | |
| tree | 054988a44b4a68ad0e1b4470dfc566dc3e6dfd8a /vlib-api/vlibapi | |
| parent | 8d9e80583fbb8ffb30e63153ef5b2b21c6b336fa (diff) | |
VPP-83 Allow non-privileged clients to use the vpp binary API.
Use the command line argument "api-segment { uid <nnn> gid <nnn> }" to
configure shared memory segment file ownership. Defaults to uid = gid
= 0. Shared-memory segments are explicitly set to 0770 mode, aka
"rwxrwx---".
Change-Id: Ic5d596b68139add61e7de6ace035c57dfd030111
Signed-off-by: Dave Barach <dave@barachs.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'vlib-api/vlibapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | vlib-api/vlibapi/api.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | vlib-api/vlibapi/api_shared.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/vlib-api/vlibapi/api.h b/vlib-api/vlibapi/api.h index 1f45a05738c..419210f7056 100644 --- a/vlib-api/vlibapi/api.h +++ b/vlib-api/vlibapi/api.h @@ -134,6 +134,10 @@ typedef struct { /* vector of message ranges */ vl_api_msg_range_t *msg_ranges; + /* gid for the api shared memory region */ + int api_gid; + int api_uid; + /* Client-only data structures */ unix_shared_memory_queue_t *vl_input_queue; diff --git a/vlib-api/vlibapi/api_shared.c b/vlib-api/vlibapi/api_shared.c index 308f0028e25..0600e621a4e 100644 --- a/vlib-api/vlibapi/api_shared.c +++ b/vlib-api/vlibapi/api_shared.c @@ -647,6 +647,14 @@ vl_api_init (vlib_main_t *vm) once = 1; am->region_name = "/unset"; + /* + * Eventually passed to fchown, -1 => "current user" + * instead of 0 => "root". A very fine disctinction at best. + */ + if (am->api_uid == 0) + am->api_uid = -1; + if (am->api_gid == 0) + am->api_gid = -1; return (0); } |