[gopher] Re: Security issues in Gopher?

[David Allen <mda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:19:08PM -0000, Robert Hahn wrote:
> ooo... that's *cool*.
> 
> ok, so, building on your example, what if I created a soft link to
> ls from within /home/anstouh?  would that be enough to work, or do I
> have to physically copy the binary to within that directory? 

Links can't "escape" the chroot jail.  If you chroot to
/var/something, and that directory contains a link to /home/anstouh,
it won't be accessible.

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David Allen
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