current-users: Re: tar ignores filenames that contain `..'

Subject: Re: tar ignores filenames that contain `..'
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/31/2002 12:01:20

David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> > can't chroot as a normal user?
> 
> A normal user can't overwrite anything (very) improtant.

Untrue. Many break-ins succeed by getting normal users to do things...

Perry