Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] User chroot | Date | 27 Jun 2001 11:14:13 -0700 |
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Followup to: <83fdx$Z1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> By author: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > jc@lysator.liu.se (Jorgen Cederlof) wrote on 27.06.01 in <20010627014534.B2654@ondska>: > > > If we only allow user chroots for processes that have never been > > chrooted before, and if the suid/sgid bits won't have any effect under > > the new root, it should be perfectly safe to allow any user to chroot. > > Hmm. Dos this work with initrd and root pivoting? >
At the moment, yes. Once Viro gets his root-changes in, this breaks, since ALL processes will be chrooted.
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