[scponly] Why SUID scponlyc

[wby oblyr]

Hi Martin,

as Tom stated, chroot() requires superuser. 

this is why the chrooted version of scponly is a seperate binary.  if you 
dont want to use chroot, you use scponly (which is not setuid and 
therefore "safer").

joe


Martin Werthmoeller wrote this message on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 
16:59 +0100:
> 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.
> 
> So why it will be installed with the suid flag set?
> 
> Gruß,
> martin! 
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