Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: can chroot be made safe for non-root? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 21 Oct 2002 16:22:12 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 07:44, Philippe Troin wrote: > > Is there a reason besides standards compliance that chroot() does not > > already change directory to the chroot'd directory for root processes? > > Would it actually break existing apps if it did change the directory? > > Probably not. Make that: change the directory to chroot'd directory if > the current working directory is outside the chroot. That is, leave > the cwd alone if it is already inside the chroot.
Last time it was tried real apps broke.
chroot is not jail chroot is not a sandbox. Do the job right (eg the vroot work) and it'll get a lot further
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