rarun2 - Man Page

This program is used as a launcher for running programs with different environment, arguments, permissions, directories and overridden default file descriptors.

rarun2 -t will show the terminal name and wait for a connection from another process. try rarun2 stdio=<ttypath> program=/bin/sh

The program just accepts a single argument which is the filename of the configuration file to run the program.

It is useful when you have to run a program using long arguments or pass long data to stdin or things like that usually are required for exploiting crackmes :)

The rr2 (rarun2) configuration file accepts the following directives, described as key=value entries and comments defined as lines starting with '#'.

arg[0-N]

set value for argument N passed to the program

aslr

enable or disable ASLR

bits

set 32 or 64 bit (if the architecture supports it)

chdir

change directory before executing the program

chroot

run the program in chroot. requires some previous setup

clearenv

unset the whole environment

core

set no limit the core file size

times

boolean value (true|false) to print runtime in milliseconds to stderr after program execution

connect

connect stdin/stdout/stderr to a socket

pty

use a pty for connection over socket (with connect/listen)

envfile

set a file with lines like `var=value` to be used as env

fork

used with the listen option, allow to spawn a different process for each connection. Ignored when debugging.

input

set string to be passed to the program via stdin

libpath

override path where the dynamic loader will look for shared libraries

listen

bound stdin/stdout/stderr to a listening socket

maxstack

set the maximum size for the stack

maxproc

set the maximum number of processes

maxfd

set the maximum number of file descriptors

nice

set the niceness level of the process

preload

preload a library (not supported on Windows, only linux,osx,bsd)

daemon

Set to false by default, otherwise it will run the program in background, detached from the terminal.

program

path to program to be executed

execve

use execve instead of posix_spawn (osx tricks)

runlib

path to the library to be executed

runlib.fcn

function name to call from runlib library

r2preload

preload with libr2, kill -USR1 to get an r2 shell or -USR2 to spawn a webserver in a thread

r2preweb

run the webserver in a thread just at starting the r2preload

setenv

set value for given environment variable

setegid

set effective process group id

seteuid

set effective process uid

setgid

set process group id

stderrout true|false

Redirect stderr filedescriptor to stdout

setuid

set process uid

sleep

sleep for the given amount of seconds

stdin

select file to read data from stdin

stdout

select file to replace stdout file descriptor

system

execute the given command

timeout

set a timeout

timeoutsig

signal to use when killing the child because the timeout happens

unsetenv

unset one environment variable

Every value in this configuration file can contain a special

@filename

Slurp contents of file and put them inside the key

text

Escape characters useful for hex chars

'string'

Escape characters useful for hex chars

!cmd

Run command to store the output in the variable

:102030

Parse hexpair string and store it in the variable

:!cmd

Parse hexpair string from output of command and store it in the variable

%1234

Parses the input string and returns it as integer

Sample rarun2 script

$ cat foo.rr2
#!/usr/bin/rarun2
program=./pp400
arg0=10
stdin=foo.txt
chdir=/tmp
clearenv=true
setenv=EGG=eggsy
setenv=NOFUN=nogames
unsetenv=NOFUN
# EGG will be the only env variable
#chroot=.
./foo.rr2

Connecting a program to a socket

$ nc -l 9999
$ rarun2 program=/bin/ls connect=localhost:9999

Debugging a program redirecting IO to another terminal

## open a new terminal and type 'tty' to get
$ tty ; clear ; sleep 999999
/dev/ttyS010
## in another terminal run r2
$ r2 -r foo.rr2 -d ls
$ cat foo.rr2
#!/usr/bin/rarun2
stdio=/dev/ttys010
## Or you can use -R to set a key=value
r2 -R stdio=/dev/ttys010 -d ls

You can also use the -- flag to specify program and arguments in a more natural way:

$ rarun2 timeout=2 -- sleep 4

Run a library function

$ rarun2 runlib=/lib/libc-2.25.so runlib.fcn=system arg1="ls /"

RARUN2_ARGS useful to just run "rarun2" but parse arguments from environment var

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Written by pancake <pancake@nopcode.org>

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