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authorAndreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>2021-05-30 22:06:28 +0200
committerAndreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>2021-05-30 23:09:37 +0200
commit33f2eeea4a39dd892bad3930d1f2cfdfa7e3a7f8 (patch)
tree02f659bb5fdf04603bf1d7b3902856a8ad574bfa /Base
parentdfd988707c013d68f64fb56892480248fdce03a1 (diff)
downloadserenity-33f2eeea4a39dd892bad3930d1f2cfdfa7e3a7f8.zip
pls: Drastically simplify this program
Since this program is setuid-root, it should be as simple as possible. To that end, remove `/etc/plsusers` and use filesystem permissions to achieve the same thing. `/bin/pls` is now only executable by `root` or members of the `wheel` group. Also remove all the logic that went to great lengths to `unveil()` a minimal set of filesystem paths that may be used for the command. The complexity-to-benefit ratio did not seem justified, and I think we're better off keeping this simple. Finally, remove pledge promises the moment they are no longer needed.
Diffstat (limited to 'Base')
-rw-r--r--Base/etc/plsusers4
-rw-r--r--Base/usr/share/man/man8/pls.md6
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Base/etc/plsusers b/Base/etc/plsusers
deleted file mode 100644
index 24fbad1611..0000000000
--- a/Base/etc/plsusers
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# plsusers file
-# Put any users you want to allow to run programs as root here
-root
-anon
diff --git a/Base/usr/share/man/man8/pls.md b/Base/usr/share/man/man8/pls.md
index 131261340c..867e62f7b1 100644
--- a/Base/usr/share/man/man8/pls.md
+++ b/Base/usr/share/man/man8/pls.md
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ $ pls [command]
## Description
-Executes a command as the root user (uid and gid 0), given that the user executing `pls` is located in
-the plsusers file.
+Executes a command as superuser (UID and GID 0). This command is only available for users in the `wheel` group.
It is possible to execute commands that contain hyphenated options via the use of `--`, which signifies the
end of command options. For example:
@@ -20,9 +19,6 @@ end of command options. For example:
$ pls -- ls -la
```
-## Files
-/etc/plsusers - List of users that can run `pls`
-
## Examples
```sh