On Sep 25 2007 16:48, Alan Cox wrote: >David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alan Cox wrote: >>>> >>>> Marek's loading dynamic libraries, it seems clear that the prime >>>> purpose of chroot is to aid security. Being able to cd your way >>>> out is handy >>> >>> Does it - I can't find any evidence for that. >> >> It seems self-evident to me. What do you think is it prime purpose? > >Debugging and testing. At least that is as I understand it much of where >it came from. > >>> A root user can get out of a chroot a million different ways
Uhm, you _do_ have considered the case of setuid(non-0)-after-chroot, have not you? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
