Fedora Users — Re: chroot ??? what is it ?

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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