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process: passing -1 to setuid/setgid should not abort #36786

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process: passing -1 to setuid/setgid should not abort
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions lib/internal/bootstrap/switches/does_own_process_state.js
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Expand Up @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ function wrapPosixCredentialSetters(credentials) {
return function(id) {
validateId(id, 'id');
// Result is 0 on success, 1 if credential is unknown.
if (typeof id === 'number') id |= 0;
const result = method(id);
if (result === 1) {
throw new ERR_UNKNOWN_CREDENTIAL(type, id);
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions test/parallel/test-process-uid-gid.js
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Expand Up @@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ assert.throws(() => {
message: 'User identifier does not exist: fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveyb'
});

// Passing -0 shouldn't crash the process
// Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/32750
try { process.setuid(-0); } catch {}
try { process.seteuid(-0); } catch {}
try { process.setgid(-0); } catch {}
try { process.setegid(-0); } catch {}

// If we're not running as super user...
if (process.getuid() !== 0) {
// Should not throw.
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}
process.setgid('nogroup');
}

const newgid = process.getgid();
assert.notStrictEqual(newgid, oldgid);

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