[scponly] Why SUID scponlyc

[Thomas Wana]

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 16:59, Martin Werthmoeller wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> when I installed scponly with the --enable-chrooted-binary option, it will
> be installed SUID root. On Linux this seems not necessary (tested). I
> think on FreeBSD, too.

You need root privileges to execute chroot(2). At least on Linux.

Tom

>
> So why it will be installed with the suid flag set?
>
> Gruß,
> martin!