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From: drw@math.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Safer unsharing
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Date: 11 Oct 89 04:08:51 GMT
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I may be naieve, but I would think that between running sh from a
non-root account, and use of chroot(), one would be able to confine
the damage from a dangerous archive to just one part of the directory
tree.

Why doesn't this work?

Dale
drw@math.mit.edu