Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:40:36 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] User chroot |
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Paul Menage wrote:
> But only root can set this up, since you currently have to be root in > order to chroot(). The (only) advantage of the user chroot() patch would > be that users would be able to do the same thing without root > intervention.
You need to be root to do mknod. You need to do mknod to create /dev/zero. You need /dev/zero to get anywhere near the normal behaviour of the system.
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