Subject: Re: PR 36963
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/20/2007 16:53:57
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Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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>>> Does login in via ssh and exiting cause the same changes? 
>>    No.
>>
>>    Does this mean anything to you guys? As in "Now try to ...".
> 
> As others have noted, when you log in on the console you're using file
> devices that are on a different device, one opened by init before the
> chroot.  That may be an important clue, though I won't speculate on
> what it signifies.

   Hmm.. I realize now that I've fundamentally misunderstood how devices
are handled in chroots. Things are becoming a _little_ clearer.

> One related question: are you using ptyfs?

   No.

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Kind regards,
Jan Danielsson

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