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[linux-security] Re: Re: Re: Re: Towards a solution of tmp-file problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Friedrichs)
Sat Mar 14 09:59:25 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:47:01 -0700 (MST)
From: Oliver Friedrichs <oliver@securenetworks.com>
To: "Andrew R. Baker" <andrewb@uab.edu>
Cc: linux-security@redhat.com, nick@zeta.org.au
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980312095656.10073C-100000@mdk187.tucc.uab.edu>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Andrew R. Baker wrote:
> Maybe I'm not quite awake enough yet (and if so just ignore me), but this
> looks very similar to what 'chroot' does.
>
> Taken from the chroot(2) manpage:
But chroot is a system call that requires root privileges to utilize. It
would be useless to any of the other hundreds/thousands of programs that
use /tmp and aren't setuid root.
- Oliver
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