On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 02:50:45PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 02:45:21AM -0800, Xin LI wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Andrey Chernov <a...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 02:26:20AM -0800, Xin LI wrote:
> > >> chroot(2) can create legitimate and secure environment where dlopen(2)
> > >> is safe and necessary.
> > >
> > > Yes, so ischroot() check can be used only into that places where libc's
> > > libc_dlopen() currently used, i.e. placed into libc_dlopen() itself.
> > 
> > So it's Okay to break NSS in chroot jail?
> 
> We need general solution. We simple can't count all possible and future 
> ftpd's arround the world and insert __FreeBSD_libc_enter_restricted_mode() 
> into them. I even not mention other programs that may use chroot() too. If 
> some component like auth is critical for chroot, it should be restricted 
> in general scope.

To work in admin-think-safe environment we can add another syscall like
safe_chroot(1). When it is marked as safe, ischroot() will return 0.

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