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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: chroot
To: njensen@salsa.habaneros.com (Neil C. Jensen)
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 08:55:17 -0700 (MST)
Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <01BB8434.5D2CBF00@jalapeno.habaneros.com> from "Neil C. Jensen" at Aug 7, 96 07:45:05 am
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It seems that Neil C. Jensen said:
> 
> The permissions on chroot are correct:
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  8192 Jul 16 19:33 /usr/sbin/chroot
> 
> If I use "/usr/sbin/chroot /home/terminal" as my login shell, the
> exact error message is "login: /usr/sbin/chroot /home/terminal:
> permission denied".
> 
> The permissions on the home directory are standard.
> 
> If I instead try to use the login script, the error message is
> "chroot: /home/terminal: Operation not permitted"

Umm, if you specify /usr/sbin/chroot as your login shell, doesn't
it need to be listed in /etc/shells??

--don