Re: Hurd Projects

[Niels Möller]

tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> A cautionary note: In Unix, you can use chroot as a security feature
> because of this fact.  In the Hurd, however, there are other ways to
> get back the original system root directory, so chroot is no longer
> as useful for security purposes.

How? The ability for a process to irrevocably destroy some of its
capabilities is a nice thing to have. E.g. closing the process'
root-fs port.

/Niels