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Subject: Re: chroot() in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
Message-ID: <1994Nov18.012535.23207@levels.unisa.edu.au>
Date: 18 Nov 94 01:25:35 +1030
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terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes:
> Uh... you get to be root, trapped in your own little world and unable to
> affect other files on the system?

I suppose you can't guess what you could do with the suid-root programs
which you left in your `own little world', after you leave the chroot-ed
process?


> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.

If I were your employer I would insist that you make such disclaimers, too.
Ha ha ha I'm so witty.


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