* Supriya Phadke (ssp1741@cs.tamu.edu) wrote: > Hi, > Suppose that a process inside a chrooted environment is trying to access a > file. For security reasons I want to find out if the file being accessed > is inside the chrooted directory or outside it. (There are ways by which a > user can get out of the chroot and I basically want to prevent that). This thread just popped up on lkml. Rather than repeat it, I'll just point you to it. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=102587722400002&r=1&w=2 > Is there a way to do the same ? Don't use chroot ;-) Seriously, chroot has many holes. If you really care about security use something more sophisticated. You'll find security modules on http://lsm.immunix.org that may suit your needs. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
