[Charlotte.PM] charlotte Digest, Vol 23, Issue 6: chroot issue

[George McLaughlin]

If I'm not mistaken, you also have to do a 'chmod 7455 <enter script name here>' to get it to work on a unix system. This is because a regular user should not be able to run a script/program that can gain root access without the person who has root access giveing the app the 'ok' to do whatever it is that requires root access. The other option is to set the directory up as readable/writeable for everybody...something like 'chmod -R 666 <directory goes here>'. 

George McLaughlin

You need to be careful when you do this though since it opens all kinds of security holes...I think they've even written books on how not to do it.... :(

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>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:57:09 -0400
>From: William McKee <william at knowmad.com>
>Subject: Re: [Charlotte.PM] Doing a chroot in Perl
>To: Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
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>On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:47:23PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> I'm asking why was tomcat able to redirect the output to a file name
>> out.txt in / of the chroot.  / in the chroot is owned by root.
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>Sorry but I can't be of much help there. I'm not very familiar with
>chroot. Have you tried CharLUG? This seems to me to be more of a OS
>issue than a Perl problem. Let us know if you figure it out.
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>Good luck,
>William
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