Received: with LISTAR (v1.0.0; list gopher); Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:57:03 -0500 (EST) Return-Path: Delivered-To: gopher@complete.org Received: from christoph.complete.org (168-215-193-242.dslindiana.com [168.215.193.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "christoph.complete.org", Issuer CN "John Goerzen -- Root CA" (verified OK)) by pi.glockenspiel.complete.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBCB3B80B; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:57:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by christoph.complete.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D191713273; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:57:02 -0500 (EST) To: gopher@complete.org Subject: [gopher] Re: Security issues in Gopher? References: <20020122141908.90821.qmail@ingwaz.pair.com> From: John Goerzen Date: 22 Jan 2002 09:57:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20020122141908.90821.qmail@ingwaz.pair.com> Message-ID: <87d702e8n5.fsf@complete.org> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 383 X-listar-version: Listar v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: jgoerzen@complete.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Listar version 1.0.0 X-List-ID: Gopher List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: gopher Robert Hahn writes: > ooo... that's *cool*. > > ok, so, building on your example, what if I created a soft link to > ls from within /home/anstouh? would that be enough to work, or do I > have to physically copy the binary to within that directory? Neither would work. A hard link would work. Anything that uses pathnames, which symlinks do, completely cannot ever look outside of /home/anstouh. Ever. To put ls there, you'd need to copy in ls, your C library (libc.so or whatnot), your ld.so, etc. if you're in Linux. Because it can't even find the C libraries if they aren't in the directory. -- John