Re: PATCH] Allow setuid/setgid core files

Neil A. Wilson (nawilson@nawilson.com)
21 Apr 2002 09:10:19 -0500


On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 03:24, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> BTW, what uid/gid will the core get ? I think that it should get
> the highest level so that if someone breaks in through a service
> which uses this feature and which has dropped its uid/gid, at
> least he cannot read eventual cores from previous attempts.
> Comments ?
>

Thanks for the feedback. You bring up a good point here. Currently the
dump is owned by the effective uid. I'll look into writing it as root.

Neil

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