Re: svn commit: r228843 - head/contrib/telnet/libtelnet

On Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:44:01 pm Xin Li wrote:
> On 12/29/11 10:43, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:26:17 pm Xin Li wrote:
> >> On 12/29/11 06:39, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>> Can you give some more details on why ftpd is triggering a
> >>> dlopen inside of the chroot?  It would appear that that is
> >>> unrelated to helper programs (since setting a flag in libc in
> >>> ftpd can't possibly affect helper programs ability to use
> >>> dlopen() from within libc).
> >>
> >> Sure.  That's because nsdispatch(3) would reload
> >> /etc/nsswitch.conf if it notices a change.  After chroot() the
> >> file is considered as "chang"ed and thus it reloads the file as
> >> well as designated shared libraries.
> >
> > But ftpd has to be doing some operation that invokes an nss lookup
> > after entering the chroot for that to trigger, correct?
> 
> Oh ok, that was the built-in ls(1).

Were we not able to drop privilege before doing that?  I.e. if you
forked a new process that dropped privilege before doing the ls
(similar to if you were to exec /bin/ls as a helper), would that not
have fixed this?

-- 
John Baldwin
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