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Re: chroot useful?
From: Aleph One <aleph1 () dfw net>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:24:14 -0600 (CST)
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
That was precisely my point -- that this opinion is not correct. There are numerous ways for root to break out of a chroot() "jail"; the simplest is to do mknod() to create new special device files for the real disks, and mount new file systems on those devices. Many other variants are possible as well.
Actually the simplest is: mkdir("foo",S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR); chroot("foo"); chdir(".."); Aleph One / aleph1 () dfw net http://underground.org/ KeyID 1024/948FD6B5 Fingerprint EE C9 E8 AA CB AF 09 61 8C 39 EA 47 A8 6A B8 01
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- Re: chroot useful?, (continued)
- Re: chroot useful? Joseph S. D. Yao (Nov 10)
- Re: chroot useful? Andreas Siegert (Nov 12)
- Re: chroot useful? chuck+fwwiz (Nov 10)
- Re: chroot useful? Paul McNabb (Nov 12)
- Re: chroot useful? Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 13)
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- Re: chroot useful? Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 13)
- Re: chroot useful? Paul McNabb (Nov 12)
- Re: chroot useful? Douglas R. Steinbaum (Nov 13)
- Re: chroot useful? Darren Reed (Nov 14)
- Re: chroot useful? Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 14)
- Re: chroot useful? Aleph One (Nov 14)
- Re: chroot useful? Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 15)
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- Re: chroot useful? Joseph S. D. Yao (Nov 10)
- Re: chroot useful? Paul McNabb (Nov 14)
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- Re: chroot useful? Anton J Aylward (Nov 15)
- Re: chroot useful? Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 16)
- Re: chroot useful? Anton J Aylward (Nov 15)
- Re: chroot useful? Darren Reed (Nov 16)
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