John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering scripsit: >> What if chroot works for non-privileged users on some type of system? > That sounds extremely unlikely, [...]
It's not so far-fetched. There's a hint on the first lines of "info coreutils chroot": `chroot' runs a command with a specified root directory. On many systems, only the super-user can do this. Synopses: I wrote "many" rather than "all" for a good reason. A quick search shows there is at least one exception: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2003-April/000125.html