Re: access to proc filesystem from chrooted process

Fuzzy Fox (fox@dallas.net)
Mon, 24 May 1999 23:21:03 -0500

Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
>
> Yes. The proc file-system can be mounted multably. You can check this
> out if you have a ftp server installed.
>
> cd /home/ftp
> mkdir proc
> mount proc proc -t proc
>
> Now execute anonymous ftp. You can `chdir` to what now looks like
> `/proc` in the chrooted environment and get the directory.

Perhaps it should be mentioned that making the /proc filesystem's
contents available to an anonymous ftp server would seem to be a
security hole, leaking far more information than might be prudent for
such a server.

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