Re: questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-31 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:43:28PM +0100, J.J. van Gorkum wrote: Maybe I'm too much an old school admin but 'they' allways told me to move all the libraries into the chroot environment (no symlinks watsoever) and even (if possible) move the whole chroot environment onto an special

Re: questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-30 Thread Sean McAvoy
Hello, Bind has the built in ability to chroot itself (-t). then all that needs to be done is altering the bind init script(/etc/init.d/bind), which contains the OPTS variable. Add '-u [username] -t [chroot_dir]' into that variable and you should be ok. I've done this with Bind 8, and now upgraded

Re: questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-30 Thread J.J. van Gorkum
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 18:40, Sean McAvoy wrote: Hello, Bind has the built in ability to chroot itself (-t). then all that needs to be done is altering the bind init script(/etc/init.d/bind), which contains the OPTS variable. Add '-u [username] -t [chroot_dir]' into that variable and you

Re: questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-30 Thread Sean McAvoy
Yes it is true that it's making use of the systems libs, but they can't be touched by the process as it has been chrooted. In order for someone to overwrite those files, they would first have to break of the chroot. I'm not sure of the real security implications of using the system libs are vs.

Re: questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-30 Thread J.J. van Gorkum
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 22:15, Sean McAvoy wrote: Yes it is true that it's making use of the systems libs, but they can't be touched by the process as it has been chrooted. In order for someone to overwrite those files, they would first have to break of the chroot. I'm not sure of the real

Re: questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-30 Thread Lupe Christoph
Hi1 Please try not to wrap long lines in command output. On Tuesday, 2002-10-29 at 23:35:42 +0100, J.J. van Gorkum wrote: Hi, I have a question about chrooting bind 8.3.3 I have used the setup as described in http://people.debian.org/~pzn/howto/chroot-bind.sh.txt ... but when I then start

Re: questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-30 Thread Sean McAvoy
Hello, Bind has the built in ability to chroot itself (-t). then all that needs to be done is altering the bind init script(/etc/init.d/bind), which contains the OPTS variable. Add '-u [username] -t [chroot_dir]' into that variable and you should be ok. I've done this with Bind 8, and now upgraded

Re: questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-30 Thread J.J. van Gorkum
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 18:40, Sean McAvoy wrote: Hello, Bind has the built in ability to chroot itself (-t). then all that needs to be done is altering the bind init script(/etc/init.d/bind), which contains the OPTS variable. Add '-u [username] -t [chroot_dir]' into that variable and you

Re: questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-30 Thread Sean McAvoy
Yes it is true that it's making use of the systems libs, but they can't be touched by the process as it has been chrooted. In order for someone to overwrite those files, they would first have to break of the chroot. I'm not sure of the real security implications of using the system libs are vs.

Re: questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-30 Thread J.J. van Gorkum
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 22:15, Sean McAvoy wrote: Yes it is true that it's making use of the systems libs, but they can't be touched by the process as it has been chrooted. In order for someone to overwrite those files, they would first have to break of the chroot. I'm not sure of the real

questions about chrooting bind 8.3.3

2002-10-29 Thread J.J. van Gorkum
Hi, I have a question about chrooting bind 8.3.3 I have used the setup as described in http://people.debian.org/~pzn/howto/chroot-bind.sh.txt ... but when I then start bind evrything looks right but when I do a lsof -p pid of named I see: command to start bind: start-stop-daemon --start