chroot-jail ?? whats this

[Harold Pritchett]

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 12:39:00PM +0800, Lawrence Chan wrote:
> 
> > When setting up jails with chroot, how many of shared files can be linked
> > or, would all needed files have to be duplicated below the jail root so as
> > not to defeat the security provided by chroot?
> 
> You cannot link them, since THE ORIGINAL FILES ARE NOT VISIBLE when in
> chroot-jail! So you have to copy them.

Actually, you should be able to put the originals in the /jail root and
link them to the real root locations.  You just can't go the other way.

Harold