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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 11:28:27 +0400
From:      "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
To:        "Lim Seng Chor" <Lim.Seng.Chor@sit.edu.my>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: chroot socks
Message-ID:  <012701c0e8da$1e4f4540$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua>
References:  <3B14548E.8959.6EE2D2@localhost>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lim Seng Chor <Lim.Seng.Chor@sit.edu.my>
Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 9:59 PM
Subject: chroot socks


> i am running nec socks5 on my freebsd box. 
> i want to do a chroot on running socks5, and switch to use nobody 
> as its uid. 
> anyone can teach me how to use 'chroot' command? 
> and, i tried to do su nobody -c socks5
> 
> but failed to do so because nobody is using /sbin/nologin as its 
> shell, so i cannot invoke that command. 
> if let say, i dont want to modify my passwd file, is there any 
> alternatives?
> 

# su -m nobody -c /path/to/socks5



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