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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:35:32 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc>
To:        Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
Cc:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Chrooted bind  out of the box
Message-ID:  <20020107183532.GA94047@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <20020107090632.P95067@buffoon.automagic.org>
References:  <000001c195b1$db087880$41c801ca@warhawk> <20020105140846.D204@gohan.cjclark.org> <20020105222558.A95067@buffoon.automagic.org> <20020106112345.B237@gohan.cjclark.org> <20020107090632.P95067@buffoon.automagic.org>

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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:06:32AM -0500, Joe Abley wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:23:45AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > and you still need to run as
> > bind:bind for chrooting to be much of a security measure.
> 
> I will disagree with your last point...

You might want to think about that some more. chroot'd or not, root
can do what it wants --- such as create device nodes for your disk
devices and mount them.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
NTT/Verio SME          .     FreeBSD UNIX     .       Heimdal Kerberos
jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se

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