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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.
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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 ...

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Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner@arisia.xerox.com