Xref: utzoo news.admin:4118 news.sysadmin:1738 comp.mail.uucp:2398 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet! Message-ID:Date: 30 Nov 88 05:59:11 GMT References: <1971@van-bc.UUCP> <572@comdesign.CDI.COM> <5517@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <561@redsox.UUCP> <215@twwells.uucp> <155@ecicrl.UUCP> <2683@epimass.EPI.COM> Sender: vixie@decwrl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 9 In-reply-to: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM's message of 29 Nov 88 20:01:39 GMT # You are now root, and you can do another chroot to gain access to the # whole system. Chroot is not reversable. Once you're down, you can't see what was above anymore and therefore there's no way to tell chroot where you'd like to go. -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013