[1011] in athena10
Re: Failsafe xterm and breaking out of the chroot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Tue Jan 27 20:41:06 2009
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:40:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: "Aaron M. Ucko" <ucko@debian.org>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> /proc/1/root is just a symlink; it points to the path (/), not the actual=
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> inode. You can=E2=80=99t break out of a chroot with a symlink.
Or maybe I spoke too soon, because this does actually appear to =E2=80=9Cwo=
rk=E2=80=9D.=20
Special.
Anders
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