[PATCH] Allow coredumps

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Tue Oct 28 18:48:15 WST 2008


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:46:51PM -0700, Brent Roman wrote:
> This is a patch to v0.51 that introduces a new configure time option
> ALLOW_COREDUMPS
> to allow coredumps from processes
> started via dropbear server (and client)
> 
> It conditionally rolls back a change introduced around version 0.49
> In some environments, coredumps are a very useful debugging tool.

Thanks for the patch. The change was introduced to avoid
leaving sensitive details like passwords about in core dump
files (perhaps overly paranoid? - should a separate ulimit
be enforcing that anyway...). The #ifdef makes sense.

Cheers,
Matt


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