Re: Dumping core: root vs. normal user
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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.
Darren
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