Alan Cox wrote:
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 handyDoes 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.
Good call. Though I suppose, since it's used 24x7 to aid security on countless production servers, that security dwarfs testing. Still, debugging, yes that's valid.
I don't suppose it makes and difference; whatever the purpose, a chroot that doesn't change the root is buggy.
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