Re: can chroot be made safe for non-root?

From: Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 15:29:31 EST

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On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 05:15:07PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> Anything that wants to look at /etc/password or /etc/shadow comes to mind.

only if it runs with elevated priveledges. If it is started under a users
chroot, the eleated privs come from suid/sgid.

Greetings
Bernd
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