At 12:03 AM 3/8/00 -0800, George Greer wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Anil Mahajan wrote:
>
> >Mandrake's got a really annoying security 'feature' that is a living
> >hell for us developers. It's not a PAMd issue like you'd figure but
> >something tiny and undocumented.
> > Anyway, to make a long story short (3 months of emails and posts).
> >Here's how you get Mandrake Linux to dump a core file from a remote
> >daemon (telnet/ssh session).
>
>RedHat does the same thing, but what does this have to do with CircleMUD?
>
>_Please_ do not tell me you are running the MUD as root...
>
>--
>George Greer | CircleMUD Community Resources
>greerga@circlemud.org | http://www.circlemud.net/
>
Neither of us are. But this is the basic problem:
daemon is a function used in system startup scripts.
inetd is started with a startup script that uses daemon.
telnet is spawned by inetd.
if daemon sets a max limit for core dumps to 0, this will affect telnet
sessions.
And as the startup script for SSH that I had used the daemon function call,
the same applied to it.
If the shell which is spawned by telnet or ssh has a max coredump limit of 0,
so will the MUD.
Make sense?
--SR
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