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[Full-disclosure] Re: Root password change

Subject: [Full-disclosure] Re: Root password change
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:35:37 -0600
Once upon a time, Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.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@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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