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masks and sys/stat.h
My question relates to the header file <sys/stat.h>. The following code snippet is from W. Richard Stevens' "Unix Network Programming" (it's part of an authentication program):
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <pwd.h>
...
struct stat statbuff;
struct passwd *pwd;
register FILE *hostfp;
...
if ((fstat(fileno(hostfp), &statbuff) < 0 ||
(statbuff.st_uid !=0 && statbuff.st_uid != pwd->pw_uid) ||
(statbuff.st_mode & 022) {
fclose(hostfp);
return(-1);
}
My question relates to the reference to 022. This appears to be some kind of mask - but what exactly is its role in the program? My sys/stat.h contains the following masks, none of which seems to correspond to the 022:
#define S_IFMT 00170000
#define S_IFSOCK 0140000
#define S_IFLNK 0120000
#define S_IFREG 0100000
#define S_IFBLK 0060000
#define S_IFDIR 0040000
#define S_IFCHR 0020000
#define S_IFIFO 0010000
#define S_ISUID 0004000
#define S_ISGID 0002000
#define S_ISVTX 0001000
Any enlightenment would be appreciated! (Also, I'm certain that Stevens has omitted to mention what "fileno", also in the above code snippet, is. It's not some standard library function, is it?)
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <pwd.h>
...
struct stat statbuff;
struct passwd *pwd;
register FILE *hostfp;
...
if ((fstat(fileno(hostfp), &statbuff) < 0 ||
(statbuff.st_uid !=0 && statbuff.st_uid != pwd->pw_uid) ||
(statbuff.st_mode & 022) {
fclose(hostfp);
return(-1);
}
My question relates to the reference to 022. This appears to be some kind of mask - but what exactly is its role in the program? My sys/stat.h contains the following masks, none of which seems to correspond to the 022:
#define S_IFMT 00170000
#define S_IFSOCK 0140000
#define S_IFLNK 0120000
#define S_IFREG 0100000
#define S_IFBLK 0060000
#define S_IFDIR 0040000
#define S_IFCHR 0020000
#define S_IFIFO 0010000
#define S_ISUID 0004000
#define S_ISGID 0002000
#define S_ISVTX 0001000
Any enlightenment would be appreciated! (Also, I'm certain that Stevens has omitted to mention what "fileno", also in the above code snippet, is. It's not some standard library function, is it?)
022 refers to group and others writable permission. fileno is a standard function that returns the file descriptor of the FILE* passed.
Symbolically, 022 is;
(S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH)
(S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH)
The code snippet I guess is from rlogind or rshd (remshd), and verifies that .rhosts is either owned by root or owned by the user, and is not writable by anyone other than the owner.
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I want to give you the points for this, ecw, so perhaps you can reply so that I get the "question answered" message. Thanks.
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