/** * @license * Copyright 2019 Balena Ltd. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import { ChildProcess, spawn, SpawnOptions } from 'child_process'; import { stripIndent } from 'common-tags'; /** * Execute a child process with admin / superuser privileges, prompting the user for * elevation as needed, and taking care of shell-escaping arguments in a suitable way * for Windows and Linux/Mac. * * @param command Unescaped array of command and args to be executed. If isCLIcmd is * true, the command should not include the 'node' or 'balena' components, for * example: ['internal', 'osinit', ...]. This function will add argv[0] and argv[1] * as needed (taking process.pkg into account -- CLI standalone zip package), and * will also shell-escape the arguments as needed, taking into account the * differences between bash/sh and the Windows cmd.exe in relation to escape * characters. * @param stderr Optional stream to which stderr should be piped * @param isCLIcmd (default: true) Whether the command array is a balena CLI command * (e.g. ['internal', 'osinit', ...]), in which case process.argv[0] and argv[1] are * added as necessary, depending on whether the CLI is running as a standalone zip * package (with Node built in). */ export async function executeWithPrivileges( command: string[], stderr?: NodeJS.WritableStream, isCLIcmd = true, ): Promise { // whether the CLI is already running with admin / super user privileges const isElevated = await (await import('is-elevated'))(); const { shellEscape } = await import('./helpers'); const opts: SpawnOptions = { env: process.env, stdio: ['inherit', 'inherit', stderr ? 'pipe' : 'inherit'], }; if (isElevated) { if (isCLIcmd) { // opts.shell is false, so preserve pkg's '/snapshot' at argv[1] command = [process.argv[0], process.argv[1], ...command]; } // already running with privileges: simply spawn the command await spawnAndPipe(command[0], command.slice(1), opts, stderr); } else { if (isCLIcmd) { // In the case of a CLI standalone zip package (process.pkg is truthy), // the Node executable is bundled with the source code and node_modules // folder in a single file named in argv[0]. In this case, argv[1] // contains a "/snapshot" path that should be discarded when opts.shell // is true. command = (process as any).pkg ? [process.argv[0], ...command] : [process.argv[0], process.argv[1], ...command]; } opts.shell = true; const escapedCmd = shellEscape(command); // running as ordinary user: elevate privileges if (process.platform === 'win32') { await windosuExec(escapedCmd, stderr); } else { await spawnAndPipe('sudo', escapedCmd, opts, stderr); } } } async function spawnAndPipe( spawnCmd: string, spawnArgs: string[], spawnOpts: SpawnOptions, stderr?: NodeJS.WritableStream, ) { await new Promise((resolve, reject) => { const ps: ChildProcess = spawn(spawnCmd, spawnArgs, spawnOpts); ps.on('error', reject); ps.on('exit', codeOrSignal => { if (codeOrSignal !== 0) { const errMsgCmd = `[${[spawnCmd, ...spawnArgs].join()}]`; reject( new Error( `Child process exited with error code "${codeOrSignal}" for command:\n${errMsgCmd}`, ), ); } else { resolve(); } }); if (stderr) { ps.stderr.pipe(stderr); } }); } async function windosuExec( escapedArgs: string[], stderr?: NodeJS.WritableStream, ): Promise { if (stderr) { const msg = stripIndent` Error: unable to elevate privileges. Please run the command prompt as an Administrator: https://www.howtogeek.com/194041/how-to-open-the-command-prompt-as-administrator-in-windows-8.1/ `; throw new Error(msg); } return require('windosu').exec(escapedArgs.join(' ')); }