Re: Chroot bug

[David Newall]

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?


> A root user can get out of a chroot a million different ways

One of those ways shouldn't be that chroot lets you out.
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