Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!labrea!csli!gandalf From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet! Message-ID: <6665@csli.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 3 Dec 88 02:50:50 GMT References:<366@mikros.systemware.de> <44700@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Reply-To: wagner@arisia.xerox.com (Juergen Wagner) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 14 In article <44700@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> engelson@cs.yale.edu (Sean Philip Engelson) writes: >... >chroot /tmp/root > >Ta Da! Instant superuser! >... Nope! The symbolic link cannot be resolved after the chroot. You'll have to create a setuid root file under /tmp, or link a file there to /etc/passwd (hard link), or ... -- Juergen Wagner gandalf@csli.stanford.edu wagner@arisia.xerox.com