On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:54:45AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > Eloy A. Paris, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >an easy one: why when root runs a program that faults core is not > >dumped but when a normal user runs the same program a core is dumped? > > My educated guess on this is that there could be sensitive data in the > root core dump. I remember this was true on some unix I've worked on in > the past, but I can't remember which one.
I think it might be on setuid programs that the core isn't dumped. In that case, just un-setuid the program and run it as root (it'll probably work then, just to nark you off!) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
