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Re: FreeBSD,rlogin and coredumps.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Greenman)
Mon Feb 17 01:10:06 1997

Date: 	Sun, 16 Feb 1997 20:37:57 -0800
Reply-To: dg@root.com
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
X-To:         Roelof W Temmingh <roelof@CUBE.NANOTEQ.CO.ZA>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  Your message of "Mon, 17 Feb 1997 01:34:06 +0200." 
              <Pine.BSF.3.91.970217010740.6489A-100000@wips.nanoteq.co.za>

>I also tried this on a FreeBSD 2.1.5 box, and it did the same thing. I
>wonder if there is a way to make a core dump only readable by root, and why
>this isn't the default?

   FreeBSD 2.1.6 and later versions will not dump a core file if the process
is setuid/setgid.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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