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In article <1992Apr5.181626.6514@banana.ithaca.ny.us> jhood@banana.ithaca.ny.us (John Hood) writes:
|Bill, I think, maintains bbstevie,

Nope, you're thinking of Roy Silvernail.  I think.

|I don't think chroot environments are too hard to set up.  The way I
|do it is to have a single chroot area for all users, and copy the file
|they need to edit in and out of there, as necessary.

Well, that solution ocurred to me, of course, but was immediately thrown
out as unacceptable because users cannot access their home directory (as
you noted).

If your chroot'd directory is on the same filesystem as your user files,
you could play games with hard links, to allow the user directory to
be accessed, but you still couldn't create a new file.

I guess that what I should have said is that a flexible but secure chrooted
environment is difficult to set up.  If you're willing to give up flexibility,
then you can accomplish a lot with chroot.

  Bill
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