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author | Timothy Pearson <[email protected]> | 2012-06-12 01:58:10 -0500 |
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committer | Timothy Pearson <[email protected]> | 2012-06-12 01:58:10 -0500 |
commit | 30461576d34ece5d06626f217a034dbfaa353c4d (patch) | |
tree | 424f77819fa68e22c3e40273cb24e3500a7e51fb | |
parent | 59ee4f6630e6ed6b2712600a88d3ba9ce383620b (diff) | |
download | tdebase-30461576d34ece5d06626f217a034dbfaa353c4d.tar.gz tdebase-30461576d34ece5d06626f217a034dbfaa353c4d.zip |
Only request root access in drkonqui if yama ptrace setting requires it
This resolves Bug 1005
-rw-r--r-- | drkonqi/backtrace.cpp | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drkonqi/backtrace.cpp b/drkonqi/backtrace.cpp index e6a4de578..2688dec5f 100644 --- a/drkonqi/backtrace.cpp +++ b/drkonqi/backtrace.cpp @@ -107,11 +107,31 @@ void BackTrace::start() ::fsync(handle); m_temp_cmd->close(); + // determine if yama has been used to prevent ptrace as normal user + bool need_root_access = false; + TQFile yamactl("/proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope"); + if (yamactl.exists()) { + if (yamactl.open(IO_ReadOnly)) { + TQTextStream stream(&yamactl); + TQString line; + line = stream.readLine(); + if (line.toInt() != 0) { + need_root_access = true; + } + yamactl.close(); + } + } + // start the debugger m_proc = new KProcess; m_proc->setUseShell(true); - *m_proc << "tdesu -t --comment \"" << i18n("Administrative access is required to generate a backtrace") << "\" -c \"" << m_temp_cmd->name() << "\""; + if (need_root_access == false) { + *m_proc << m_temp_cmd->name(); + } + else { + *m_proc << "tdesu -t --comment \"" << i18n("Administrative access is required to generate a backtrace") << "\" -c \"" << m_temp_cmd->name() << "\""; + } connect(m_proc, TQT_SIGNAL(receivedStdout(KProcess*, char*, int)), TQT_SLOT(slotReadInput(KProcess*, char*, int))); |