using chroot option for ntpd

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Sun Jul 24 09:52:59 CDT 2005


Hi Zach!

Zach [2005-07-23 22:23 -0400]:
> Thanks for the informative explanation :-)

Your're welcome. :-)

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

I agree. :-) As I wrote in another followup, I don't think that it
doesn't make sense; I just don't have enough time to do that stuff
myself.

Thanks and have a nice day,

Martin

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