Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:14:38 +0200 (SAT) From: Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> To: jas@flyingfox.COM (Jim Shankland) Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Coredumps and setuids .. interesting.. Message-ID: <199702190714.JAA22361@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199702190649.WAA16181@saguaro.flyingfox.com> from Jim Shankland at "Feb 18, 97 10:49:22 pm"
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> David Greenman writes, re coredumping setuid processes: > > > Hmmm. Either my replies aren't getting through to bugtraq, or > > people are just ignoring them. As of FreeBSD 2.1.6 and newer > > versions, we don't core dump for setuid processes. It's been > > this way for nearly a year in -current, but the change didn't > > get merged into the 2.1.x branch until after the 2.1.5 > > release...that was an oversight. This is weird ... I have a 2.1.0 machine that I upgraded to a 2.1.6.1 machine just before 2.1.6 was "freezed". I tried the rlogin coredump thingy and it did work. I could see ALL the users AND their passwords :/ > And I tried it out on an old laptop that still has 2.1.0-951104-SNAP, > and it wouldn't dump the core of a setuid process. (I don't have > a 2.1.5 system to try it out on.) Then it gor broke somewhere again ? Reinier
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