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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 1996 06:35:12 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Subject:   Re: bin/1805: Bug in ftpd
Message-ID:  <199610152035.GAA21721@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> This was probably fixed in March in -current but not in -stable.
>> Setuid processes cannot dump core in -current.  This makes them harder
>> to debug of course.
>
>What did I miss ? wu-ftpd is not setuid... It is launched as root by inetd
>so the setuid-program-don't-core is not applicable.

It must have done a setuid(user) to become the user.  This sets the
P_SUGID flag, which is what prevents dumping core and ptrace/procfs
attach .  It doesn't matter whether the P_SUGID flag was set at exec
time or later.

Bruce



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