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Re: Ftp'ing out of a chroot()ed environment

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From: John Hascall
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:17
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smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com (Steve Dahmen) writes:
}Does anybody understand chroot and ftp/telnet enough to tell me why
}I can't get ftp nor telnet to run in my chrooted account??  I'd like
}to set up a user zone to allow simple ftp/telnet through without opening
}my whole system.
}
}I did a dump -n on the binaries and ensured the requested libraries are
}available in the chrooted environment.  Do I need anything special in
}/etc (I have resolv.conf) or /dev???
}
}Help.

Without you saying what kind of system you have this is pretty hard, but
Try this:
         strings `which telnet` | grep '/[a-z]'

John
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