Re: daemon-less kmod & Alpha no-go!

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:06:13 -0700


>From: Perry Harrington <pedward@sun4.apsoft.com>

>Couldn't you easily hack by just creating a program called "modprobe"
>in a directory called "sbin", and chrooting to the parent directory
>of "sbin"? Meaning:

>user bonehead does:

>~bonehead:>mkdir sbin
>~bonehead:>cp hack sbin/modprobe
>~bonehead:>chroot ~bonehead (program that would cause a modprobe)

>The above is fairly simple. Howe does the kernel handle this? Because
>the kernel is affected by a chroot.

This would have been trivial to try before posting to this list.
Had you done that, you would have discovered that you have to be
the superuser to use chroot.

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