Re: [bug-mailutils] pop3d: setting up chroot simply

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Stephen Gildea <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think a good place to do the chroot would be where the daemons
> currently do setuid.  At this point we are finished accessing /etc files
> and are about to look at the user's mailbox only.

Depending on the operating mode, pop3d may still access files in /etc
and other directories after initial startup. Namely, this happens when
using PAM authentication (libpam re-reads /etc/pam.conf each time
pam_start() is called). Chrooting will break it.

Regards,
Sergey