Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!decwrl!atha!lyndon From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Safer unsharing -- why chroot() *really* doesn't work Message-ID: <1196@atha.AthabascaU.CA> Date: 27 Oct 89 18:00:29 GMT References: <1491@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Reply-To: lyndon@auvax.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 17 In article <1491@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >In article , drw@fibonacci.math.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes: > >| 3. While it's sleeping, in another shell, cd to that fake root >| directory. "ln /bin/su ./bin/su" to install su in the fake /bin >| directory. Also, "cat ~/xyz ./etc/passwd" to install a fake >| /etc/passwd file, one whose root password you know. > > In *what* other shell? In the shell you're running from the terminal beside you, or another xterm, or a different window under screen, or ... -- Lyndon Nerenberg VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University {alberta,decwrl,lsuc}!atha!lyndon || lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA The Connector is the Notwork.