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Date:      Sun, 04 Nov 2001 20:57:05 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Security List <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Chroot or jail? 
Message-ID:  <22273.1004903825@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2001 14:48:31 EST." <20011104144213.R18641-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> 

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In message <20011104144213.R18641-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>, Francisco Reyes 
writes:
>On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> Both chroot and jail must be run as root.  Chroot doesn't hide
>> anything only jail does.
>
>So what was chroot used for?

See /usr/share/doc/papers/jail.ascii.gz

>For jail is it necessary to have an entire environment? I only need a few
>binaries.

You only need the binaries you want.

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