From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 15 11:09:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22723 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22715 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:08:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id UAA16653; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:08:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19981115200813.B12524@foobar.franken.de> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:08:13 +0100 From: Harold Gutch To: Mike Smith , zhihuizhang Cc: hackers Subject: Re: Question on chroot() References: <199811151756.JAA13251@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199811151756.JAA13251@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 09:56:32AM -0800 X-Organisation: BatmanSystemDistribution X-Mission: To free the world from the Penguin Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 09:56:32AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > Breaking out of a chroot'ed environment is less easy if you're not > root Is this meant to be read as "more or less impossible", that is, impossible unless the user can become root first (due to insecure suid-root binaries in the chroot-environment etc.), or can users really break out in more or less every situation (of course assuming stuff like that they don't have any open filehandles pointing to the outside in the beginning). -- bye, logix Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message