Re: access to proc filesystem from chrooted process
Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Fri, 21 May 1999 10:29:47 -0400
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:40:54AM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Peri.
>
> > There is a suggestion in the kernel sources that a chrooted
> > process should only be able to see processes that have the same
> > root or that have a more restricted root.
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding this, it appears to be pointless since
> only processes chroot'd to / or /proc could see the entries in the
> proc file system anyway, as if they're chroot'd anywhere else, they
> can't even access /proc ???
>
you can remount the proc filesystem any number of times, anywhere.
-- arvind
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