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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2635 comp.os.386bsd.questions:14580 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: chroot() in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Message-ID: <CzKoIC.Bxy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <3a95ui$anu@news.cc.utah.edu> <CzD6Dx.IKz@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <CzEA7J.EH0@druid.com> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 15:32:36 GMT Lines: 20 In article <CzEA7J.EH0@druid.com> darcy@druid.com (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: >: The real problem is how to get hold of "su" inside the chroot()ed >: directory. >OK, let's spell it out. Thanks, I knew that. >ln /bin/su . This of course is the bit that might be tricky. You have to be able to make a hard link to su (or similiar). If /tmp or (/usr/tmp, if it exists) is on the right partition, you can do it. -- Richard -- Satan himself, in a sermon preached from the pulpit of North Berwick church, comforted his many servants by assuring them that no harm could befall them "sa lang as their hair wes on, an sould newir latt ane teir fall fra thair ene". - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough