Reyk Floeter <r...@openbsd.org> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 02:03:37PM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 02:21:51AM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
>> > "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com> writes:
>> > 
>> > > Hi,
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > > Running the 12/12 snapshot, amd64.
>> > >
>> > > I'm setting up the looking glass CGI included with httpd. Requests for
>> > > ping and traceroute fail.
>> > >
>> > > Per bgplg(8), I've set mode 4555 on the static binaries:
>> > >
>> > > ls -lai /var/www/bin/
>> > > total 1844
>> > > 77958 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  daemon     512 Dec 11 17:47 .
>> > > 77956 drwxr-xr-x  15 root  daemon     512 Dec 12 15:35 ..
>> > > 77959 -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  bin     256240 Dec  8 12:09 bgpctl
>> > > 77978 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  bin     273200 Dec  8 15:36 femail
>> > > 77960 -r-sr-xr-x   2 root  bin     318320 Dec  8 12:09 ping
>> > > 77960 -r-sr-xr-x   2 root  bin     318320 Dec  8 12:09 ping6
>> > > 77961 -r-sr-xr-x   2 root  bin     281168 Dec  8 12:09 traceroute
>> > > 77961 -r-sr-xr-x   2 root  bin     281168 Dec  8 12:09 traceroute6
>> > >
>> > > Ping and traceroute run fine as root. As an unprivileged user, though,
>> > > I get:
>> > >
>> > > ./ping 8.8.8.8
>> > > ping: socket: Permission denied
>> > >
>> > > $ ./traceroute 8.8.8.8
>> > > traceroute: unable to revoke privs: Operation not permitted
>> > >
>> > > Any suggestions? Or have I found a bug?
>> > 
>> > Is the partition that holds /var/www/bin mounted "nosuid"?
>> 
>> (Replying mostly for the archives.)
>> 
>> Yes, /var is mounted nosuid.
>> 
>> bgplg(8) has lovely detailed instructions on how to set it up,
>> including setting the suid bit, but don't mention that detail.
>> 
>
> And, for the sake of completeness, it should mention that detail.

Agreed, Michael isn't the first one to stumble upon this.

> Does the attached wording sound right?

Looks better than the diff I had, ok jca@

> Reyk
>
> Index: usr.bin/bgplg/bgplg.8
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/bgplg/bgplg.8,v
> retrieving revision 1.15
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.15 bgplg.8
> --- usr.bin/bgplg/bgplg.8     10 Sep 2015 15:16:44 -0000      1.15
> +++ usr.bin/bgplg/bgplg.8     14 Dec 2016 13:53:14 -0000
> @@ -153,6 +153,12 @@ To enable the corresponding functionalit
>  .Xr chmod 1
>  utility to manually set the file permission mode to 0555 or anything
>  appropriate.
> +Some of these executables need the set-user-ID bit;
> +enabling them requires to mount the filesystem of
> +.Pa /var/www
> +without the
> +.Ic nosuid
> +option.
>  .Pp
>  .Bl -tag -width "/var/www/bin/traceroute6XX" -compact
>  .It Pa /var/www/cgi-bin/bgplg
>


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