From: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 18:19:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: took out setuid(0) and setreuid(udi) garbage.  Its not needed since
X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_3_0~33
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9fe5184668bae1b70467d6083bccbba939376d08;p=sudo

took out setuid(0) and setreuid(udi) garbage.  Its not needed since
we start out setuid with the correct perms.
---

diff --git a/check.c b/check.c
index 4a24a6b99..0f0fda177 100644
--- a/check.c
+++ b/check.c
@@ -77,33 +77,11 @@ void check_user()
 
     umask(077);			/* make sure the timestamp files are private */
 
-    if (setuid(0)) {		/* have to be root to see timestamps */
-	perror("setuid(0)");
-	exit(1);
-    }
     rtn = check_timestamp();
-    /* don't want to be root longer than necessary */
-    if (setreuid(uid, (uid_t)-1)) {
-#ifndef _AIX
-	perror("setreuid()");
-	exit(1);
-#endif
-    }
     if (rtn && uid)		/* if timestamp is not current... */
 	check_passwd();
 
-    if (setuid(0)) {		/* have to be root to play with timestamps */
-	perror("setuid(0)");
-	exit(1);
-    }
     update_timestamp();
-    /* don't want to be root longer than necessary */
-    if (setreuid(uid, (uid_t)-1)) {
-#ifndef _AIX
-	perror("setreuid()");
-	exit(1);
-#endif
-    }
     umask(022);			/* want a real umask to exec() the command */
 
 }
diff --git a/sudo.c b/sudo.c
index 123a88a3d..03d98488f 100644
--- a/sudo.c
+++ b/sudo.c
@@ -126,17 +126,7 @@ main(argc, argv, envp)
 
     clean_envp(envp);		/* build Envp based on envp (w/o LD_*) */
 
-    if (setuid(0)) {
-	perror("setuid(0)");
-	exit(1);
-    }
     rtn = validate();
-    if (setreuid(uid, (uid_t)-1)) {
-#ifndef _AIX
-	perror("setreuid()");
-	exit(1);
-#endif
-    }
     switch (rtn) {
 
     case VALIDATE_OK: