chroot-jail ?? whats this

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:43:19PM +0000, Doug Siebert wrote:

> If root is acquired in the chroot filesystem, all is lost unless it is

Thus don't run BIND as user root -- perhaps it would make sense to enforce
"-u" when "-t" is used...

> There really is a reason why people keep saying that chroot() really
> doesn't buy you much security...

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