ChrootDirectory on a per key basis

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:18:55PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> I thought that the suid bit was a property of the directory entry, not the 
> inode? 

No.

> On what platforms is the suid bit a property of the inode, which 
> would make this exploit possible?

On all platforms with "unix file system semantics" (read: inodes), the
directory entry only contains "name->inode", and all details, including
all permission bits, are stored in the inode.

gert
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