Xref: utzoo news.admin:4143 news.sysadmin:1770 comp.mail.uucp:2424 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!mikros!stefan 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 References:Reply-To: stefan@mikros.UUCP (Stefan Stapelberg) Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Lohr/W-Germany Lines: 11 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. -- Die schaerfsten Kritiker der Elche waren frueher selber welche. -- Traxler