Not enough info, so no point

[JD]

On 06/03/11 09:09, 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.
>
We are not talking about hacking!!
we are talking about normal user interaction,
and in this case, limited to running yum update.
There is absolutely no danger in doing so -
been there and done it.