Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 03:35:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: angelos@dsl.cis.upenn.edu, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chroot() Message-ID: <199807120735.DAA06281@homeport.org> In-Reply-To: <2486.900138858@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jul 11, 98 08:34:18 am"
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: | In message <199807110241.WAA21195@adk.gr>, "Angelos D. Keromytis" writes: | | >Keep in mind that it's trivial to escape from a root shell if you have | >root (or can do certain things). chroot() is unfortunately far from | >perfect. | | A FreeBSD user has paid me to strengthen the chroot() concept, and the code | will go into FreeBSD when he has had time to get his money back through | the use of it. Can you talk about what strengthening you've done? Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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