Chroot Jails Made Easy

Posted by michael on Friday October 11, 2002 @07:57PM from the let-my-people-go dept.

GonzoJohn writes "There are always difficult jobs to do as a GNU/Linux system administrator. Sometimes the difficulty lies in finding out how to do a particular job, not necessarily the job itself. This can be particularly true in the open source world where documentation can often take a back seat to implementation. But once in a while, you can stumble on a real gem that simplifies even the most difficult administration tasks. One such gem is the Jail Chroot Project. Linux Orbit introduces you to creating chroot-ed environments in this article."

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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-11 20:00 · Score: -1, Troll

fp for all you faggorts (jaffk!)
Chroot jails, eh? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-11 20:20 · Score: -1, Troll

Funny to see an article boosting them when a "jailbreak" is considered simple by both people in the know AND Bugtraq folks.
Re:jail != chroot by Krapangor · 2002-10-11 21:17 · Score: -1, Troll

OpenBSD don't have it - Theo says it's too complicated to be secure
Theo thinks that things can be secure only if he can understand them ?

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