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Re: Chroot TOR as explained on Wiki error



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Thus spake SPKills, on 11/18/07 4:44 PM:
> Well, i followed instruction to chroot TOR as explained at
> http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorInChroot
> No errors occur untill the test step where i got :
>       debian:/home/user/tor-0.1.2.18# chroot $TORCHROOT /tor/bin/tor
>       chroot: cannot run command `/tor/bin/tor': No such file or directory

People should be aware that there are problems in using chroot as a
security tool. It was never intended for this purpose.
Details here: http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Abusing_chroot

Thanks,
Eugene

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Eugene Y. Vasserman
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~eyv/
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