privs: move drop_privileges out of xutils

Again, also to be able to maintain this more easily.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/xutils.c b/xutils.c
index 28900cb..b1f73a4 100644
--- a/xutils.c
+++ b/xutils.c
@@ -201,20 +201,6 @@ u32 wireless_bitrate(const char *ifname)
 	return rate_in_mbit;
 }
 
-void drop_privileges(bool enforce, uid_t uid, gid_t gid)
-{
-	if (enforce) {
-		if (uid == getuid())
-			panic("Uid cannot be the same as the current user!\n");
-		if (gid == getgid())
-			panic("Gid cannot be the same as the current user!\n");
-	}
-	if (setgid(gid) != 0)
-		panic("Unable to drop group privileges: %s!\n", strerror(errno));
-	if (setuid(uid) != 0)
-		panic("Unable to drop user privileges: %s!\n", strerror(errno));
-}
-
 int get_system_socket_mem(int which)
 {
 	int fd, val = -1;