RE: chroot() breaks syslog() ?

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Herbert Pötzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
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> hmm, how will you avoid creation of special (devicenodes)
> files if I have raw access to any partition? I can 'simply'
> use xxd to create my special inodes on the medium ...
> and I would not care if mount is enabled or not when I
> wipe the root partition with dd ...

AFAIK, there are possibilities to deny _RAW_ access to partitions, while in a chroot-jail... If not, I'll tell the grsec-team to implement a new feature. :)

Best regards,
 Oliver

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