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chroot @ Linux

I relaxed at the weekend without touching any computers (expect for about 20 minutes on saturday). Quite uncommon feeling ;-).

What I’ve done on friday before driving back to Klagenfurt was setting up chroot on two of my linux-boxes. Based on the work of Wolfgang Fuschlberger and hisssh-scp-chroot-jail-script (thanks Wolfgang!) I tried to set it up but noticed some traps. I sent some bugfixes to Wolfgang and he already merged them into his script (great!).

I wrote a small webpage with some notes on setting up chroot and mentioned it on my german linux-tipps-webpage.

What’s on my todo-list (as 423 other things 8-)) is to check the security-state of the chroot-environment. And I’ll try to check and provide some static binaries inside chroot for providing shellaccounts on my boxes for scp, svn,…

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