privileges and 'C' -flag [Re: OpenBSD work on Tcpdump privilege separation]

[Pekka Savola <pekkas () netcore fi>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Michael Richardson wrote:
>   And don't forget that -C permits rolling files, so one might have to
> *recover* from chroot() to do that, and then become root again,
> etc. Think about this for a moment. 

This is a good point, one overlooked previously.

Is it OK, now, just by fixing the man page and/or adding some checks
that dropping privileges is incompatible with 'C' flag?

Or does someone want to start building somekind of real
privilege-separation framework?  I certainly won't be doing it :)

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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