RFR : 8211326 : add OS user related information to hs_err file

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Oct 2 07:49:06 UTC 2018


Hi Matthias,

On 2/10/2018 5:30 PM, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
> Hello , please review this small enhancement to the hs_err file .
> 
> Currently the hs_err file contains only limited OS user related information.
> Just the user name is printed via output of environment variables (at least on Windows with USERNAME - output).
> The enhanced output on UNIX would contain more information including uid, gid and umask  :
> 
> uid : 1679 (testuser)
> euid : 1679 (testuser)
> gid : 25 (testgroup)
> egid : 25 (testgroup)
> 
> umask: 0022 (removing ----w--w-)

Could any of this be considered sensitive information by an end-user?

Thanks,
David

> 
> (  Some of the info above could be found currently  in error logging output e.g.
>              attachListener_linux.cpp   line 362
>              log_debug(attach)("euid/egid check failed (%d/%d vs %d/%d)",
> (and the user name on Windows(-only) is in the env variables section).
> 
> 
> 
> bug/webrev :
> ----------------------
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211326
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8211326.0/
> 
> 
> Thanks, Matthias
> 


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