full-disclosure - Re: Root password change

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Date: Thu Mar 30 20:35:47 2006
From: cmadams at hiwaay.net (Chris Adams)
Subject: Re: Root password change

Once upon a time, Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@...ohio.edu> said:
> if you're chrooted under /tmp (as it sounds from your email) you're out 
> of luck, unless you have a way to escape the chroot due to a 
> misconfiguration of that environment in the first place.

If you are root, chroot is easy to break (that's why chroot is not
secure for root-owned processes).

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@...aay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.