I'm not familiar with 'runas' for Linux. (There's a Windows command of that name...) On the surface, it sounds like 'sudo'.
'sudo' can be handy for starting a service in a chroot jail with its uid already set to an unprivileged user. The process can be assigned the necessary privileges to then open ports for listening, open a log socket for writing, etc. jailkit's socketd, as mentioned by Heiko Zuerker, looks really handy if you want a jailed service to log to syslogd. Most syslogd implementations can only create one log socket. The syslogd from syslog-ng can, but for example if you're using busybox's syslogd, you're otherwise out of luck. http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/jk_socketd.8.html Chris Buxton Professional Services Men & Mice On Sep 17, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Robert Connolly wrote: > On Monday September 15 2008 12:21:16 pm Chris Buxton wrote: >> I have some experience with chroot jails, including setting them up >> from scratch and debugging them. > > Do you use the 'runas' program? Are there reasons not to use it? > > robert > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
