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Re: chroot and su



On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> Hi
>
> I want to run a certain daemon in a chroot jail. Since that daemon has no
> support for running in a chroot, I'll have to run it as a user. This means
> that I have to add some sort of 'su' into the chroot jail.
>
> Any way of avoiding that extra binary? I remember reading somewhere about
> a program called 'suchroot' r 'suchroot' that does both things (and thus I
> can avoid adding binaries to the chroot jail). But I couldn't find it or
> anything similar. A couple of web searches I've tried have given no better
> solution.

Here is the program I rememberd:
http://www.carcosa.net/jason/software/utilities/uchroot/
('uchroot instead of 'suchroot'). It is not exactly what I remembered, but
it seems OK.

I'll have a look at it later today...

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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