user-util: return malloc'ed strings in get_user_creds

get_user_creds would use getpwnam() and then returns strings pointing
into the static buffer. This seems very iffy. Let's duplicate the
strings properly
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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2026-05-21 18:02:05 +02:00
parent 3ecd6b69cf
commit c83ff0e58d
21 changed files with 176 additions and 203 deletions
+2 -3
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@@ -42,13 +42,12 @@ static int run(int argc, char *argv[]) {
/* Drop privileges, but only if we have been started as root. If we are not running as root we assume all
* privileges are already dropped and we can't create our runtime directory. */
if (geteuid() == 0) {
const char *user = "systemd-network";
uid_t uid;
gid_t gid;
r = get_user_creds(&user, &uid, &gid, NULL, NULL, 0);
r = get_user_creds("systemd-network", /* flags= */ 0, NULL, &uid, &gid, NULL, NULL);
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Cannot resolve user name %s: %m", user);
return log_error_errno(r, "Cannot resolve user name %s: %m", "systemd-network");
/* Create runtime directory. This is not necessary when networkd is
* started with "RuntimeDirectory=systemd/netif", or after