On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:05:07 +0930 David Newall <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >> Marek's loading dynamic libraries, it seems clear that the prime purpose > >> of chroot is to aid security. Being able to cd your way out is handy > >> > > > > Does it - I can't find any evidence for that. > > It seems self-evident to me. What do you think is it prime purpose? Debugging and testing. At least that is as I understand it much of where it came from. > > A root user can get out of a chroot a million different ways > One of those ways shouldn't be that chroot lets you out. A fence with 10000 open gates is not improved by turning it into a fence with 9999 open gates. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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