Subject: Re: sysctl knob to let sugid processes dump core (pr 15994)
To: None <elad@NetBSD.org>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: tech-security
Date: 02/03/2006 11:44:05
> > i don't understand why it belongs to "security" node.
> > after all, "security" is not a subsystem.
> 
> set-id processes dont dump core due to security reasons, so i thought
> that putting this under the security node would be a good idea.
> 
> of course i'm not going to even bother arguing over this matter, and
> if that's where people want it to be, it's fine with me.

collecting security related knobs under the node sounds a bad idea to me.

YAMAMOTO Takashi