NAME
secure_path —
determine if a file appears to be
``secure''
LIBRARY
library “libutil”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<util.h>
int
secure_path(const
char *path);
DESCRIPTION
Thesecure_path()
function takes a path name and returns zero if the referenced file is
“secure”, non-zero if not. Any “insecurity”, other
than failure to access the referenced file, will be logged to the system log.
To be “secure”, the referenced file must exist, be a regular file (and not a directory), owned by the super-user, and writable only by the super-user.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The secure_path() function is based on the
BSD/OS implementation of same, and appeared in
NetBSD 1.5 by kind permission.