[Full-disclosure] Re: Root password change

[Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Once upon a time, Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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