Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 09:03:53 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Correct way to chroot for shell account users? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970530090251.14689q-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <l03020900afb38f29f0df@[194.32.164.2]>
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On Thu, 29 May 1997, Bob Bishop wrote: > I'm sure I'm being desperately naive here, but isn't it sufficient for > safety to make chroot(2) a successful no-op unless / is really / (ie the > process isn't chrooted already)? That means that you can't run anon ftp properly in a chrooted file system, because ftpd is not allowed to chroot again. /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ /* HiLink Internet <http://www.hilink.com.au/>; danny@hilink.com.au */ /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */
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