Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:11:24 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1805: Bug in ftpd Message-ID: <199610151911.MAA02970@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:37:11 %2B0200." <199610151737.TAA27258@keltia.freenix.fr>
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>According to Bruce Evans: >> 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. Coredumps aren't created when the real uid != current uid, so no coredumps will be created for normal users. Unfortunately, this isn't true for anonymous ftp which runs as root. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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