Merge pull request #27 from nsheridan/sid77/dropPrivileges

First attempt at dropping privileges

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vendor/github.com/sid77/drop/drop.go b/vendor/github.com/sid77/drop/drop.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0fb64a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/sid77/drop/drop.go
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package drop
+
+import (
+	"os/user"
+	"strconv"
+
+	"github.com/sid77/drop/syscall"
+)
+
+func DropPrivileges(runAsUser string) (err error) {
+	usr, err := user.Lookup(runAsUser)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	gid, err := strconv.Atoi(usr.Gid)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	uid, err := strconv.Atoi(usr.Uid)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if err = syscall.Setgid(gid); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if err = syscall.Setuid(uid); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}