allow to specify uid and gid in config.h

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index fd31880..74b718d 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 #ifndef _CONFIG_H
 #define _CONFIG_H
 
+/* drop privileges by changing uid and gid to these */
+#define DROP_PRIV_UID	65534
+#define DROP_PRIV_GID	65534
+
 /* website url */
 #define WEBSITE	"https://github.com/eworm-de/pacredir#pacredir"
 
diff --git a/pacredir.c b/pacredir.c
index e2a4b1c..0b034a8 100644
--- a/pacredir.c
+++ b/pacredir.c
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 		/* process is running as root, drop privileges */
 		if (verbose > 0)
 			write_log(stdout, "Running as root, meh! Dropping privileges.\n");
-		if (setgid(65534) != 0 || setuid(65534) != 0)
+		if (setgid(DROP_PRIV_GID) != 0 || setuid(DROP_PRIV_UID) != 0)
 			write_log(stderr, "Unable to drop user privileges!\n");
 	}