Alan DeKok, 2010-04-20 10:54: >> So after some debugging I got to the root cause of this: >> The process's dumpable flag is reset every time the UID is changed. FR >> does this several times with fr_suid_up() and fr_suid_down() after >> switch_users() is run, e.g. in listen_bind(). >> So I guess we have to change the fr_suid_* functions to always set the >> dumpable flag after setting the uid. > Ah... OK. That can be fixed for 2.1.9.
Excellent! :) Any idea when it will be released? >> btw, I wonder why is prctl() is not called when debug_flag is set. I >> would have thought that one would want to get a core dump especially >> when running in debug mode. > It doesn't switch UIDs when in debug mode. So it inherits whatever AFAICS it does when starting it as root (check in mainconfig.c:532). I'd say a quite common case for debugging is to run freeradius -X as root... - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
