[scponly] Need help with chrooted scponly 4.6 on centos 5

Lupe Christoph lupe at lupe-christoph.de
Sun Sep 16 05:56:53 EDT 2007


On Saturday, 2007-09-15 at 11:37:38 -0600, Security Team wrote:
> OK I did this:
> chmod 777 dev/null 
> In the chroot jail and now it logs in.  Brutal!

That should be 666. Why should /dev/null be executable?

Lupe Christoph
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