/* Drop all authentication credentials. Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> This file is part of the GNU Hurd. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include /* Obtain an empty authentication handle and use it for further authentication purposes. This effectively drops all Unix privileges. */ error_t setnullauth (void) { error_t err; auth_t nullauth; err = auth_makeauth (getauth (), NULL, MACH_MSG_TYPE_COPY_SEND, 0, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, &nullauth); if (err) return err; err = setauth (nullauth); return err; }