Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value

[John Cowan]

Jim Meyering scripsit:

> What if chroot works for non-privileged users on some type of system?

That sounds extremely unlikely, as it is a great big security hole.
With such a chroot, an unprivileged process could put a fake root around
a setuid program, supplying it with a forged /etc/passwd and tricking
the program into doing something unsavory.  Chroot has required root
privs since it was introduced in 4.2BSD.

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