<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 00:31, Genti A. Hila wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> I've heard about chroot but i do not now very well what exactly is it. I do not pretend that anybody is going to teach me that, but i was wondering if someone knows any website that talks about chroot and probably how to configure it in Fedora (since Fedora has not yet any documentation). </BLOCKQUOTE> You can do a 'man chroot' to find out a bit more about it. It's a system call that changes the root directory of a process or shell, depending on how it's used. Only the SuperUser can invoke it. It's a way of putting a process into a "jail" of sorts so that it can't access the rest of the system easily. -- </BODY> </HTML>