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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: Ftp'ing out of a chroot()ed environment
- Message-ID: <BxtxxJ.K4n@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1e8od6INN1b4@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:17:42 GMT
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- smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com (Steve Dahmen) writes:
- }Does anybody understand chroot and ftp/telnet enough to tell me why
- }I can't get ftp nor telnet to run in my chrooted account?? I'd like
- }to set up a user zone to allow simple ftp/telnet through without opening
- }my whole system.
- }
- }I did a dump -n on the binaries and ensured the requested libraries are
- }available in the chrooted environment. Do I need anything special in
- }/etc (I have resolv.conf) or /dev???
- }
- }Help.
-
- Without you saying what kind of system you have this is pretty hard, but
- Try this:
- strings `which telnet` | grep '/[a-z]'
-
- John
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