Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:29:29 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/34159: chroot man page-implementation mismatch Message-ID: <200201221029.g0MATTB94370@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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>Number: 34159 >Category: bin >Synopsis: chroot man page-implementation mismatch >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 22 02:30:01 PST 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gerald Pfeifer >Release: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 17 12:35:32 CEST 2001 root@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at:/usr/src/sys/compile/DBAI i386 >Description: I'm not completely sure whether this is a problem with documentation or implementation but... o 'man chroot' states that "command or the shell are run as your real-user-id" whereas it seems that chroot can only be run by the super-user. o If chroot indeed can only be run by the super-user, this should be properly documented, for example: "This command can be run only by the super-user." o "exec's command" should most probably read "exec's command relative to newroot". >How-To-Repeat: man chroot chroot /bin -- as regular user chroot /bin /bin/csh -- as super-user >Fix: Update man page as described above (or adjust implementation). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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