3 Jun
2011
3 Jun
'11
11:46 a.m.
On 06/03/2011 05:09 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
JD writes:
A user process (such as yum), even with root privs, CANNOT JUMP OUT OF THE BOUNDARIES OF IT'S ROOT, NAMELY (for example) /mnt/f15
Umm, that's not true. The chroot(2) man page has a nice explanation of how a root userid can trivially escape a chroot jail.
So there is no danger that yum executed within a chrooted environment will affect the enclosing host's yum database (in this case F14).
Nope, that's definitely possible.
My caution maybe well founded, so I will have to do some experimenting first.
Thanks for the feedback folks.