chroot

chroot is an ideal technique to segregate the resources your service has access to from the rest of the system.

Because xCAT expects the named service not to use chroot, remove the package bind-chroot, as shown in the listing.

Starting with OpenSSH-5. 0p1, there has been a modification in setting up the chroot environment.

The techniques used to generate such lightweight containers are primarily those used to generate chroot environments.

After a chroot, all other files and directories seem to vanish.

You need to create the home directory of the user in the chroot environment and the chrooted directory should be a root-owned directory.

Once you change to a new root (hence, chroot), files outside the root and its subdirectories are effectively nonexistent.

The chroot() function changes the root directory of the current process to the specified directory.

Linux-VServer also uses a form of chroot to isolate the root directory for each VPS.

Running as root, rsync restricts itself to the module's directory hierarchy (its path) using chroot.

A new config option, ChrootDirectory, is included in the sshd_config file that specifies the path to chroot after authentication.

For the paranoid, xinetd also supports an option called chroot.

cliuser is a special user who can execute only SONAS CLI commands and works in a chroot jail.

Say you are logging in as a user named "jyoti" in the chrooted environment.

Also. make sure that the tmp directory inside the chroot directory has 777 permissions.

The default setup of the named service on CentOS V5. 4 is to use bind-chroot.

Another consideration is chroot(2) support.

For example, you might run an FTP service under chroot so that no one can gain access to any file save those in the new root.

The fourth line turns off chroot.

The big new feature is chroot support for sshd(8).

For SFTP to run in the chroot environment, set the Subsystem config option in the sshd_config file as follows

Confine SFTP users to their own home directories by using Chroot SSHD