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Re: Simple chroot using chdrive
- To: garbanzo at hooked dot net
- Subject: Re: Simple chroot using chdrive
- From: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 01:13:46 +0100 (MET)
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
Hi Alex, you wrote:
: While it may be a security issue, or flawed in many respects, this is how
: Unix works. If the goal of cygwin.dll is to emulate Unixish functions,
: chdrive isn't what is being looked for. Chroot() incidentally can only
: be used by the super-user.
I agree with you! I meant to say it would be a security issue if
half-heartedly implemented under gnuwin32. And I forgot it needs
'appropriate privileges', which brings me to the question of how to
implement suid programs under gnuwin32 savely... Any ideas?
Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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