add apt-helper drop-privs command…

3 files changed, 43 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/cmdline/apt-helper.cc b/cmdline/apt-helper.cc
index d1a3b4e6e..beac0efba 100644
--- a/cmdline/apt-helper.cc
+++ b/cmdline/apt-helper.cc
@@ -219,6 +219,22 @@ static bool DoWaitOnline(CommandLine &)
    return _error->PendingError() == false;
 }
 									/*}}}*/
+static bool DropPrivsAndRun(CommandLine &CmdL)				/*{{{*/
+{
+   if (CmdL.FileSize() < 2)
+      return _error->Error("No command given to run without privileges");
+   if (DropPrivileges() == false)
+      return _error->Error("Dropping Privileges failed, not executing '%s'", CmdL.FileList[1]);
+
+   std::vector<char const *> Args;
+   Args.reserve(CmdL.FileSize() + 1);
+   for (auto a = CmdL.FileList + 1; *a != nullptr; ++a)
+      Args.push_back(*a);
+   Args.push_back(nullptr);
+   auto const pid = ExecuteProcess(Args.data());
+   return ExecWait(pid, CmdL.FileList[1]);
+}
+									/*}}}*/
 static bool ShowHelp(CommandLine &)					/*{{{*/
 {
    std::cout <<
@@ -239,6 +255,7 @@ static std::vector<aptDispatchWithHelp> GetCommands()			/*{{{*/
        {"cat-file", &DoCatFile, _("concatenate files, with automatic decompression")},
        {"auto-detect-proxy", &DoAutoDetectProxy, _("detect proxy using apt.conf")},
        {"wait-online", &DoWaitOnline, _("wait for system to be online")},
+       {"drop-privs", &DropPrivsAndRun, _("drop privileges before running given command")},
        {nullptr, nullptr, nullptr}};
 }
 									/*}}}*/
diff --git a/doc/examples/configure-index b/doc/examples/configure-index
index 9088bd844..b5a0b5657 100644
--- a/doc/examples/configure-index
+++ b/doc/examples/configure-index
@@ -533,7 +533,6 @@ Debug
   pkgAcqArchive::NoQueue "<BOOL>";
   Hashes "<BOOL>";
   APT::FtpArchive::Clean "<BOOL>";
-  NoDropPrivs "<BOOL>";
   EDSP::WriteSolution "<BOOL>";
   InstallProgress::Fancy "<BOOL>";
   APT::Progress::PackageManagerFd "<BOOL>";
@@ -596,6 +595,25 @@ APT::FTPArchive::release
    Version "<STRING>";
 };
 
+Debug::NoDropPrivs "<BOOL>";
+APT::Sandbox
+{
+   User "<STRING>";
+   ResetEnvironment "<BOOL>";
+   Verify "<BOOL>"
+   {
+      Groups "<BOOL>";
+      IDs "<BOOL>";
+      Regain "<BOOL>";
+   };
+   seccomp "<BOOL>"
+   {
+      print "<BOOL>"; // print what syscall was trapped
+      allow "<LIST>";
+      trap "<LIST>";
+   };
+};
+
 // having both seems wrong
 dpkgpm::progress "<BOOL>";
 dpkg::progress "<BOOL>";
@@ -638,11 +656,6 @@ apt::solver "<STRING>";
 apt::planner "<STRING>";
 apt::system "<STRING>";
 apt::acquire::translation "<STRING>"; // deprecated in favor of Acquire::Languages
-apt::sandbox::user "<STRING>";
-apt::sandbox::seccomp "<BOOL>";
-apt::sandbox::seccomp::print "<BOOL>"; // print what syscall was trapped
-apt::sandbox::seccomp::allow "<LIST>";
-apt::sandbox::seccomp::trap "<LIST>";
 apt::color::highlight "<STRING>";
 apt::color::neutral "<STRING>";
 
diff --git a/test/integration/test-apt-helper b/test/integration/test-apt-helper
index fda28968f..ae1ca7456 100755
--- a/test/integration/test-apt-helper
+++ b/test/integration/test-apt-helper
@@ -123,3 +123,10 @@ testfailureequal 'E: Must specify at least one SRV record' apthelper srv-lookup
 testfailureequal 'E: GetSrvRec failed for localhost' apthelper -q=1 srv-lookup 'localhost'
 testfailureequal "E: GetSrvRec failed for localhost:${APTHTTPPORT}" apthelper -q=1 srv-lookup "localhost:${APTHTTPPORT}"
 testfailureequal "E: GetSrvRec failed for localhost:${APTHTTPSPORT}" apthelper -q=1 srv-lookup "localhost:${APTHTTPSPORT}"
+
+msgmsg 'apt-helper' 'drop-privs'
+testfailureequal "E: No command given to run without privileges" apthelper drop-privs
+testsuccess apthelper -- drop-privs true
+testsuccess apthelper drop-privs -- true
+DATE="$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%d')"
+testsuccessequal "$DATE" apthelper drop-privs -- date -u -d "$DATE" +'%Y-%m-%d'