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Date:      Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:31:22 -0700
From:      Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>
To:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   coredumps disallowed when creds are changed?
Message-ID:  <D0A57A0A-5416-44ED-B5C8-2FC5B45B6BCB@freebsd.org>

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Greetings hackers.

core(5) states:

> By default, a process that changes user or group credentials whether real or effective will not create a corefile.  This behaviour can be changed to generate a core dump by setting the sysctl(8) variable kern.sugid_coredump to 1.

Can someone explain why?

Thanks,

Ravi (rpokala@)





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