>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent disk root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is re-rooted to another directory cannot access or name files outside that directory, called a "chroot jail" or (less commonly) a "chroot prison". The term "chroot" may refer to the chroot(2) system call or the chroot(8) wrapper program.
The chroot system call was introduced by Bill Joy on 18 March 1982 - 17 months before 4.2BSD was released - in order to test its installation and build system. Sounds like it might help you out after all. Tom Dodds -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Butera Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 8:31 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Linux Psuedo Directory <quote who='Results' date='Monday 04 August 2008'> > All, > I'm going blank on this one, all help appreciated. I want to create > a Linux user who cannot see the top level directories, i.e. what they > see as '/' is actually further down the chain. Can anyone remind me how? > > - Chuck "Rootless" Barouch Somehow 'chroot' does not seem like what you want, but I won't presume. -- Jeff Butera, Ph.D. Administrative Systems Hampshire College [EMAIL PROTECTED] 413-559-5556 "Email gives the illusion of progress even when nothing is happening." unknown ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3324 (20080804) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
