From c8cc50d46e78de7ae02c2cb7a5159e995c993f61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 18:52:15 +0200 Subject: Disable the build user mechanism on all platforms except Linux and OS X --- src/libstore/build.cc | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/libstore/build.cc') diff --git a/src/libstore/build.cc b/src/libstore/build.cc index d12a1a7913b2..d5fe41d1b165 100644 --- a/src/libstore/build.cc +++ b/src/libstore/build.cc @@ -1716,11 +1716,17 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder() /* If `build-users-group' is not empty, then we have to build as one of the members of that group. */ if (settings.buildUsersGroup != "" && getuid() == 0) { +#if defined(__linux__) || defined(__APPLE__) buildUser = std::make_unique(); /* Make sure that no other processes are executing under this uid. */ buildUser->kill(); +#else + /* Don't know how to block the creation of setuid/setgid + binaries on this platform. */ + throw Error("build users are not supported on this platform for security reasons"); +#endif } /* Create a temporary directory where the build will take -- cgit 1.4.1