libink/dbus: identify the caller behind a broker

On the local bus SO_PEERCRED says who is calling and the kernel is the
one saying it.  Behind a broker one connection carries every caller,
so that credential describes dbus-daemon and nothing else, and every
privileged method was refused there, root included.

Ask the bus driver instead.  libink parks the call and hands us the
sender; we ask GetConnectionUnixUser and answer when the reply lands,
through the same event loop as everything else.  Nothing blocks:
blocking in PID 1 is why libuEv exists.  That needs calls libink can
make on a connection it already has, so it gained those too.

Answers are cached, since a bus never reuses a unique name while it
runs.  Not across a restart though: a new dbus-daemon numbers from
scratch and :1.7 becomes somebody else, so the cache goes when the
broker does.  A sender name too long to key on is refused rather than
truncated, two callers sharing a truncated key would share an
identity.

Privilege is no longer uid 0 alone.  The socket is already owned by
the --with-group group, so refusing its members every method that
changes anything left a wheel user able to open the bus and unable to
reboot.  Both gates now say the same thing.

Group membership needs NSS, which the C library loads with dlopen(),
so the lookup is compiled out where Finit is built to link statically.
That leaves such a build root-only, which is worth saying out loud
rather than leaving to be discovered.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Joachim Wiberg
2026-08-13 10:15:06 +02:00
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commit 63aabaa6df
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sys:x:3:
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disk:x:6:
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sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
wheelie:x:1000:1000:wheelie:/home/wheelie:/bin/sh