chroot ??? what is it ?

[Ryan Daly]

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 00:31, Genti A. Hila wrote:

>  
> 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). 


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.
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