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Mitchell-JohnsonandClaude Fable 5.1 468f45251d priv: a failed root probe is retried, not cached for the life of the daemon
The Mac mini's daemon started while the machine was still booting, sudo -n true
took longer than the 3 s timeout, and sync.Once kept the answer: no root, so the
next self-update could not replace the binary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 07:05:32 -07:00

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// Package priv is the one place that knows how this daemon gets root: it already is root,
// or it has passwordless sudo, or passwordless doas (Alpine, some BSD-minded setups), or
// it has nothing and the privileged features stay off.
package priv
import (
"context"
"os"
"os/exec"
"strings"
"sync"
"time"
)
var (
mu sync.Mutex
mode string // "root" | "sudo" | "doas" | ""
prefix []string
probed time.Time
reprobe = 30 * time.Second
)
// detect settles how root is reached. Finding a way is remembered for good; finding none
// is only believed for a while, because the probe can fail for reasons that pass — sudo
// taking longer than the timeout on a machine that is still booting left a daemon
// convinced it had no root until its next restart.
func detect() {
mu.Lock()
defer mu.Unlock()
if mode != "" || (!probed.IsZero() && time.Since(probed) < reprobe) {
return
}
probed = time.Now()
if os.Geteuid() == 0 {
mode = "root"
return
}
for _, tool := range []string{"sudo", "doas"} {
if _, err := exec.LookPath(tool); err != nil {
continue
}
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 3*time.Second)
err := exec.CommandContext(ctx, tool, "-n", "true").Run()
cancel()
if err == nil {
mode, prefix = tool, []string{tool, "-n"}
return
}
}
}
// Mode reports how root is reached: "root", "sudo", "doas", or "" when it can't be.
func Mode() string { detect(); mu.Lock(); defer mu.Unlock(); return mode }
// Available reports whether commands can be run as root without a prompt.
func Available() bool { return Mode() != "" }
// Wrap returns args prefixed so they run as root. Without privilege it returns args
// unchanged; callers gate on Available() where that matters.
func Wrap(args ...string) []string {
detect()
mu.Lock()
defer mu.Unlock()
return append(append([]string{}, prefix...), args...)
}
// AsUser returns args prefixed so they run as another user with that user's HOME.
func AsUser(user string, args ...string) []string {
switch Mode() {
case "sudo":
return append([]string{"sudo", "-n", "-u", user, "-H"}, args...)
case "doas":
return append([]string{"doas", "-n", "-u", user}, args...)
case "root":
if user == "root" {
return args
}
// su exists everywhere (util-linux, shadow, busybox), needs no password from root
// and sets HOME for the target user.
return []string{"su", "-s", "/bin/sh", user, "-c", Quote(args)}
}
return args
}
// Quote joins args into one POSIX shell command line.
func Quote(args []string) string {
q := make([]string, len(args))
for i, a := range args {
q[i] = "'" + strings.ReplaceAll(a, "'", `'\''`) + "'"
}
return strings.Join(q, " ")
}