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.



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