From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: chroot bug if arg not absolute path?
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:33:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F04F56E.5060907@kegel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F04F403.2000809@kegel.com>
Dan Kegel wrote:
> On my Debian 3.0 system running the 2.4.18 kernel, I
> ran into a funny problem: /usr/sbin/chroot, or the chroot()
> system call followed by the chdir() system call,
> seem to work if their argument is not an absolute path;
> that is, scandir("/bin") can see the files in the jail,
> but execlp("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", 0) fails to find the /bin/sh
> in the jail, and sets errno to ENOENT.
>
> Is this a bug, or do I have a screw loose behind the wheel?
The latter. Ignore me.
- Dan
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2003-07-04 3:26 chroot bug if arg not absolute path? Dan Kegel
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