using chroot option for ntpd

Zach uid000 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 21:23:04 CDT 2005


Thanks for the informative explanation :-)

However I still stand by my argument that chrooting a service that
runs as unpriveledged user helps to mitigate priveledge escalation.

Zach

On 7/23/05, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> harder. With the default Linux kernel there is no hope, though; root
> is just almighty.
> 
> Martin
>



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