Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 May 1999 23:21:03 -0500 | From | Fuzzy Fox <> | Subject | Re: access to proc filesystem from chrooted process |
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Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote: > > Yes. The proc file-system can be mounted multably. You can check this > out if you have a ftp server installed. > > cd /home/ftp > mkdir proc > mount proc proc -t proc > > Now execute anonymous ftp. You can `chdir` to what now looks like > `/proc` in the chrooted environment and get the directory.
Perhaps it should be mentioned that making the /proc filesystem's contents available to an anonymous ftp server would seem to be a security hole, leaking far more information than might be prudent for such a server.
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