Things I learned from a misbehaving pam module managing our sudo context at work. sudo, for security, will not dump core files if it hits a segfault. You need to tell the kernel to allow set uid root binaries to core dump *and* you have to let sudo know that its ok via a sudo.conf entry.
DO NOT LEAVE THESE AS DEFAULTS
kern.sugid_coredump: 1
/etc/sudo.conf –> Set disable_coredump true
ref –> http://www.sudo.ws/sudo.man.html
2 responses to “The short list #5: coredumping with sudo on #FreeBSD”
Errr… are you sure that you don’t mean “Set disable_coredump false”? 🙂 Or was that meant as an additional hurdle to people who blindly copy stuff from random websites and run it without really thinking about what it means? 🙂
I wish I was that sneaky. You are correct. It should be set to false if you want it to work.