> Scenario:
>
> It is possible to crash the imapd server in several possible places.
> Due to the lack of handling for the SIGABRT signal and the nature
> of the IMAP protocol in storing folders locally on the server; a core dump
> is produced in the users current directory. This core dump contains the
> password and shadow password files from the system.
It should be noted that this only works on systems that allow a
process that has changed UIDs since the last exec to core dump.
Some, such as FreeBSD (and OpenBSD I would guess, and a dozen
others), don't for exactly this reason. The same thing came
up with ftpd a while back.