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From: stefan@mikros.systemware.de (Stefan Stapelberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet!
Message-ID: <366@mikros.systemware.de>
Date: 1 Dec 88 11:01:11 GMT
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In article  vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
>
>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.

But if you're a real wizard, you can create special device files
and examine the filesystem which is above the current root dir.

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