From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 18 10:35:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA10361 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10353 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA25038 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Fri, 18 Oct 1996 20:27:18 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Fri, 18 Oct 96 20:27:17 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA03022; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 21:23:22 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199610181723.VAA03022@nagual.ru> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/db/hash hash_buf.c In-Reply-To: <199610181604.JAA14869@root.com> from "David Greenman" at "Oct 18, 96 09:04:58 am" To: dg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 21:23:21 +0400 (MSD) Cc: gritton@byu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG From: "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" (Andrey A. Chernov) Organization: self X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The ONLY solution is to not allow coredumps of processes that might contain > sensitive data. The change that was made to hash_buf.c should be backed out > and attempts should be made to ensure that the coredump won't happen in cases > where sensitive data may be a problem. Well, personnaly I already saw at least 3 "back out" requests from core team members (including mine). How many I miss? I think it is enough amount to stop this discussion and really back it out. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/