Xref: utzoo news.admin:4209 news.sysadmin:1866 comp.mail.uucp:2481 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: chroot (was: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet! Message-ID: <1988Dec8.171042.10813@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1971@van-bc.UUCP> <572@comdesign.CDI.COM> <5517@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <561@redsox.UUCP> <215@twwells.uucp> <155@ecicrl.UUCP> <1988Nov29.181037.23528@utzoo.uucp> <157@ecicrl.UUCP> <18639@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 88 17:10:42 GMT In article <18639@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> michael@cs.ucla.edu (michael gersten) writes: >Lets say I put a dummy passwd in mydir/etc. >And I do a "exec chroot mydir login". >I then login as root. >BUT: I'm in mydir, and I can't get out. But you can, of course, make yourself a setuid-root shell if you've previously copied sh, chown, and chmod in there. Please think before posting. -- SunOSish, adj: requiring | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 32-bit bug numbers. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu