Re: can chroot be made safe for non-root?

[Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2002-09@lina.inka.de>]

In article <200210191942.g9JJg2U26376@marc2.theaimsgroup.com> you wrote:
> directory (I decided against making the chroot call fail, as any software  
> buggy enough to chroot with open directory fds is likely to not check the  
> return value of chroot(2), and blindly continue on failure--even worse).   
> I'd be happy to hear about (and fix ;) anything I've missed.  

One idea would be to sigsegv the program which is doing a chroot with open
fds :)

> IIRC, FreeBSD allow a chroot'ed process to chroot again if and only if 
> the  
> new root is a subdirectory of the initial chroot.  This allows things 
> like  
> traditional, chrooting anonymous FTP to be run under an initial chroot.    

well, you can only changeroot in a subdir anyway, so this is not the point
that freebsd is allowing a chroot in a chroot. As far as I know they simply
solved the break out issue. 

BTW: kill on open fd would solve the breakout issue, too.

Greetings
Bernd