[4054] in bugtraq
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