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From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] User chroot
Date: 28 Jun 2001 08:54:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hAoTWHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9hd7pl$86f$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <9hd7pl$86f$1@cesium.transmeta.com>

hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)  wrote on 27.06.01 in <9hd7pl$86f$1@cesium.transmeta.com>:

> By author:    kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)

> > jc@lysator.liu.se (Jorgen Cederlof)  wrote on 27.06.01 in
> > <20010627014534.B2654@ondska>:
> >
> > > If we only allow user chroots for processes that have never been
> > > chrooted before, and if the suid/sgid bits won't have any effect under
> > > the new root, it should be perfectly safe to allow any user to chroot.
> >
> > Hmm. Dos this work with initrd and root pivoting?
> >
>
> At the moment, yes.  Once Viro gets his root-changes in, this breaks,
> since ALL processes will be chrooted.

About what I expected. So you'd really want this flag to be resettable by  
root, if you go that way at all. Beginning to look a little too compley, I  
think.

The last time, ISTR we discussed some other, similar-but-different  
syscalls that made for more secure jails. I don't quite remember the  
details, though.


MfG Kai

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-28  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-26 23:45 [PATCH] User chroot Jorgen Cederlof
2001-06-26 23:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-27  0:48   ` David Wagner
2001-06-27 12:56     ` Marco Colombo
2001-06-27 13:56     ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-06-27  3:32   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-27  4:24     ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-27  6:31       ` Kai Henningsen
2001-06-27 20:55       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-27 21:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-27 21:19           ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-28  7:47         ` Sean Hunter
2001-06-28 18:25           ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-27 15:39   ` Marcus Sundberg
2001-06-27 17:55   ` Jorgen Cederlof
2001-06-27  6:37 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-06-27 18:14   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-28  6:54     ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2001-06-29 13:46     ` Jorgen Cederlof
     [not found] <0C01A29FBAE24448A792F5C68F5EA47D1205FB@nasdaq.ms.ensim.com>
2001-06-27  0:37 ` Paul Menage
2001-06-27  0:45   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-27  0:53     ` David Wagner
2001-06-27  0:51   ` David Wagner
2001-06-27  1:08   ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-06-27  1:24     ` Paul Menage
2001-06-27  1:40       ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-27  2:17         ` Paul Menage
2001-06-27  6:35           ` Kai Henningsen
2001-06-27  7:19         ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-06-27  7:43           ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-27  4:39     ` David Wagner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-27 13:57 Jesse Pollard
2001-06-27 17:42 ` David Wagner
2001-06-27 23:11 Andries.Brouwer

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