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DateWed, 16 Oct 2002 01:51:06 -0400
FromEric Buddington <>
Subjectcan chroot be made safe for non-root?
I am eager to be able to sandbox my processes on a system without the
help of suid-root programs (as I prefer to have none of these on my
system).

Would it be reasonable to allow non-root processes to chroot(), if the
chroot syscall also changed the cwd for non-root processes?

Is there a reason besides standards compliance that chroot() does not
already change directory to the chroot'd directory for root processes?
Would it actually break existing apps if it did change the directory?

-Eric
(who wishes there were better ways to run untrusted code)
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