[ATrpms-users] mlDonkey

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 06:34:45AM -0800, Rudy Eschauzier wrote:
> I am experimenting with your wonderful mlDonkey binaries. They work
> very well.
> 
> I would like to set them up without using the chroot feature, though
> (my /usr/share/mldonkey is running out of space, and I want to write
> incoming files to a dedicated partition outside the chroot jail)

Modify the config to use that partition instead. e.g. have ML_HOME
point to /my/big/partion.

> I figured not giving a chroot path in the sysconfig/mldonkey file
> would do it, but I found out this is not the case. Is there any
> other way to disable the chroot of your mlDonkey packages? If not,
> you may want to consider checking for an empty chroot path, and
> disabling based on that in future versions.

No, removing a security feature is not neccessary, and especially not
for an application that might start sharing /etc/passwd if configured
improperly or if there is some other security flaw.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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