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Subject: Re: PATCH] Allow setuid/setgid core files
From: "Neil A. Wilson" <nawilson@nawilson.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <wtarreau@free.fr>
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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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