From 98c44f1bbd86196ab48b61338a71b5371cd93991 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kytv <kytv@mail.i2p>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:16:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Abort by default if I2P is attempted to be started as root;
allow setting ALLOW_ROOT to override.
---
installer/resources/i2prouter | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/installer/resources/i2prouter b/installer/resources/i2prouter
index 67232ec29b..19344d5d16 100644
--- a/installer/resources/i2prouter
+++ b/installer/resources/i2prouter
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ PRIORITY=
# Location of the pid file.
PIDDIR="$I2PTEMP"
+# If you'd like to run I2P as root (not recommended), uncomment the
+# following line
+#ALLOW_ROOT=true
+
# FIXED_COMMAND tells the script to use a hard coded action rather than
# expecting the first parameter of the command line to be the command.
# By default the command will will be expected to be the first parameter.
@@ -1543,9 +1547,20 @@ showsetusermesg() {
echo "Please edit $0 and set the variable RUN_AS_USER."
}
+checkifstartingasroot() {
+ if [ ! `grep ^RUN_AS_USER $0` ] && [ ! `grep ^ALLOW_ROOT $0` ] && [ `id -ur` = '0' ]; then
+ echo "Running I2P as the root user is *not* recommended."
+ showsetusermesg
+ echo
+ echo "If you'd like to run as root anyway you can edit"
+ echo "$0 and set ALLOW_ROOT=true instead."
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ }
docommand() {
case "$COMMAND" in
'console')
+ checkifstartingasroot
checkUser touchlock "$@"
if [ ! -n "$FIXED_COMMAND" ] ; then
shift
@@ -1554,6 +1569,7 @@ docommand() {
;;
'start')
+ checkifstartingasroot
if [ "$DIST_OS" = "macosx" -a -f "/Library/LaunchDaemons/${APP_PLIST}" ] ; then
macosxstart
elif [ "$DIST_OS" = "linux" -a -f "/etc/init/${APP_NAME}.conf" ] ; then
--
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