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| author | Sören Tempel <soeren+git@soeren-tempel.net> | 2020-06-09 17:51:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2020-06-09 18:04:31 +0200 |
| commit | 0356607264b8e1476d98a81667488ba1d6295d23 (patch) | |
| tree | 65879ea7e3ebdb9171baaed1b5c8c9be12446135 /loginutils/deluser.c | |
| parent | d30d1ebc117db182a6156df182057291d6fbaae1 (diff) | |
deluser: check if specified home is a directory before removing it
On Alpine, some users use /dev/null as a home directory. When removing
such a user with `deluser --remove-home` this causes the /dev/null
device file to be removed which is undesirable. To prevent this pitfall,
check if the home directory specified for the user is an actual
directory (or a symlink to a directory).
Implementations of similar tools for other operating systems also
implement such checks. For instance, the OpenBSD rmuser(1)
implementation [0].
[0]: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/b69faa6c70c5bfcfdddc6138cd8e0ee18cc15b03/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.perl#L143-L151
function old new delta
deluser_main 337 380 +43
Signed-off-by: Sören Tempel <soeren+git@soeren-tempel.net>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'loginutils/deluser.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | loginutils/deluser.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/loginutils/deluser.c b/loginutils/deluser.c index 56bc7eaa6..8e7df737c 100644 --- a/loginutils/deluser.c +++ b/loginutils/deluser.c @@ -99,8 +99,14 @@ int deluser_main(int argc, char **argv) pfile = bb_path_passwd_file; if (ENABLE_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS) sfile = bb_path_shadow_file; - if (opt_delhome) - remove_file(pw->pw_dir, FILEUTILS_RECUR); + if (opt_delhome) { + struct stat st; + + /* Make sure home is an actual directory before + * removing it (e.g. users with /dev/null as home) */ + if (stat(pw->pw_dir, &st) == 0 && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) + remove_file(pw->pw_dir, FILEUTILS_RECUR); + } } else { struct group *gr; do_delgroup: |