/* Acquire root privileges. Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see . */ #include #include #include #include bool support_become_root (void) { #ifdef CLONE_NEWUSER if (unshare (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) == 0) /* Even if we do not have UID zero, we have extended privileges at this point. */ return true; #endif if (setuid (0) != 0) { printf ("warning: could not become root outside namespace (%m)\n"); return false; } return true; }