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Re: Simple chroot using chdrive
- To: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Subject: Re: Simple chroot using chdrive
- From: Alex <garbanzo at hooked dot net>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 17:44:45 -0800 (PST)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997 dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
> Hi Alex, you wrote:
>
> : While it may be a security issue, or flawed in many respects, this is how
> : Unix works. If the goal of cygwin.dll is to emulate Unixish functions,
> : chdrive isn't what is being looked for. Chroot() incidentally can only
> : be used by the super-user.
>
> I agree with you! I meant to say it would be a security issue if
> half-heartedly implemented under gnuwin32. And I forgot it needs
> 'appropriate privileges', which brings me to the question of how to
> implement suid programs under gnuwin32 savely... Any ideas?
Not on Win95, but I think that it is already done, or shouldn't be too
hard to do on NT. However using gnuwin32 for multi-user programs is
highly not recommended.
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