On Tue, May 23, 2006 5:15 pm, Zak B. Elep wrote:
> OTOH, chroots are quite painful to set up, but are worth the effort if
> your intended users are a bit, erm, well, finicky.  I can imaging
> doing a `debootstrap' for getting a Sarge base running on
> /debian-chroot , bind-mounting /home and tmpfs-mounting /tmp to it,
> configuring a `dchroot' environment, and add users with a shell
> `/usr/bin/dchroot -d -c debian' for the finale.  Your users won't even
> notice they're in a dchroot, so even if they manage to break `sudo',
> they'll be in nowhere-land.
>
> Thoughts? =)

we all know that sudo is setuid 0 ;-) it means a bug in sudo will not
surely put them in nowhere-land. but in fact, can possibly give them the
power to escape out of the chroot. if you're uid 0, chroot or not, the
possibilities are vast :-)

cheers!

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