SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

[Heiko Blume]

src at scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:

>sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>>In article <1991Feb13.221259.1462 at scuzzy.in-berlin.de> i made a typo:
>>>not exactly, for public access to my source archive i've set up
>>>a chroot() user that can't write anywhere, unhackable :-)
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>>Sorry, that's not the case.  Once you've got root access, ....

>once you've got root access, yes, but you can get root access.
                                           ^^^
i wanted to write "CAN'T", of course...
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