On Sat, 19 Jul 1997 12:02:51 EDT Brandon Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I recently attended an internet security talk, and one thing that caught > my attention is placing an offender in a virtual playpin or jail cell, > where they could do all the damage they wanted without hurting the actual > setup. I figured this was done using a chroot environment. Beware of this. It's only 99% safe. The remaining 1%: the sockets and devices remain global. Ie as root in the playpin: mknod /dev/hda b <major> <minor> cat /dev/zero > dev/hda will wipe your hard disk... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .