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* first step in making chroot nestable?
@ 2002-10-20 16:51 Shaya Potter
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From: Shaya Potter @ 2002-10-20 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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in looking through the code, it seems the follow_dotdot() function in
fs/namei.c is the ultimate part of how the kernel keeps programs jailed
into a chroot.

basically (very basic) what it appears to do is

if (place we chrooted == current place)
{
	we're at the root
} otherwise we aren't

If we would have a linked list of chroot points, and whenever we hit one
of those points in a walk, we treat it as a root, wouldn't this chain
any fd's one brought into a chroot to the original root of that fd.

yes, there are other things that would have to be taken care of to make
a chroot jail more secure, but this should be an easy thing, correct? or
am I missing more.

thanks,

shaya

	


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