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-From dec0e5183c026ccef342ba3a877c13c1cdab61d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:43:31 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Skip privilege dropping when using -Z root on --with-user
- builds
-Forwarded: not-needed
-
-Distributions which started building --with-user to switch to an
-unpriviliged user claim that the old behavior of running under root
-can be restored by passing "-Z root" on the command line. However,
-doing so is different from not using --with-user, as tcpdump still
-drops privileges and sets supplementary user groups.
-
-In Linux containers using user namespaces with an in-container root
-user mapped to an unprivileged external user, calling setgroups() is
-usually denied, as it would allow that unprivileged user to leave
-groups (see user_namespaces(7) for details). Passing "-Z root" on
-a --with-user build still goes through initgroups() and therefore
-setgroups(), which will fail in such a container environment. This
-makes tcpdump builds using --with-user effectively unusable in such
-containers.
-
-Adjust the "-Z root" fallback to skip any privilege dropping and
-supplementary group setup, making it identical to builds not using
---with-user.
----
- tcpdump.c | 2 ++
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/tcpdump.c b/tcpdump.c
-index 219ac2a2b..36ba60c17 100644
---- a/tcpdump.c
-+++ b/tcpdump.c
-@@ -2078,6 +2078,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
- /* Run with '-Z root' to restore old behaviour */
- if (!username)
- username = WITH_USER;
-+ else if (strcmp(username, "root") == 0)
-+ username = NULL;
- }
- #endif
-