downgrade/index.js

Sets the user identity of the process to `www-data`

/*! downgrade. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */
var debug = require('debug')('downgrade')

module.exports = function downgrade (uid, gid) {
  if (!uid) uid = 'www-data'
  if (!gid) gid = uid

  try {
    process.setgid(gid)
    process.setuid(uid)
    debug(
      'Downgraded gid: uid=%s (desired=%s); gid=%s (desired=%s)',
      process.getuid(), uid, process.getgid(), gid
    )
  } catch (err) {
    var currentUid = (process.getuid && process.getuid()) || 'none'
    var currentGid = (process.getgid && process.getgid()) || 'none'
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
      throw new Error(
        'Failed to downgrade: uid=' + currentUid + ' (desired=' + uid + '); ' +
        'gid=' + currentGid + ' (desired=' + gid + ')'
      )
    } else {
      debug(
        'Failed to downgrade: uid=%s (desired=%s); gid=%s (desired=%s)',
        currentUid, uid, currentGid, gid
      )
    }
  }
}