Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:45:21 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chroot problems... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961114154258.546A-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <199611141907.OAA17106@spoon.beta.com>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Brian J. McGovern wrote:
> In their home directory, I have created a directory called bin,
> statically linked csh, ls, more, rz, and sz. The program has been set
> set-uid root. On execution, it changes directories and chroot's with no
> error (error codes are 0). However, if I try to run (for instance)
> /bin/csh, bin/csh, bin/ls, or /bin/ls using a call to system()
> (ie - system("/bin/csh") ), it returns an error code 4.
system(3) calls /bin/sh to interpret its argument. You don't have a
/bin/sh inside the chrooted environment. Add one and things should work.
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