
chroot "jail" - what is it and how do I use it?
Aug 10, 2010 · A chroot jail is a way to isolate a process and its children from the rest of the system. It should only be used for processes that don't run as root, as root users can break out …
What's the proper way to prepare chroot to recover a broken …
Feb 20, 2010 · What are the proper steps to prepare a chroot environment for a recovery procedure? In many situations, repairing a broken Linux installation is best done from within …
chroot - Setting up vsftp - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Jun 17, 2021 · The documentation, as found with man vsftpd.conf writes the following, chroot_list_enable If activated, you may provide a list of local users who are placed in a chroot …
mount dev, proc, sys in a chroot environment? - Super User
I was trying to reset the grub password on my laptop via a live USB, so I needed to use chroot as well. The target system was Ubuntu 16.04 and I was working off an Elementary live USB. …
How can I chroot sftp-only SSH users into their homes?
May 9, 2012 · How can I chroot sftp-only SSH users into their homes? Ask Question Asked 13 years, 8 months ago Modified 4 years, 11 months ago
bash - scripting chroot, how to? - Ask Ubuntu
Nov 19, 2014 · The thing about chroot s and /proc, /sys and /dev/pts is that these three filesystems are provided by the kernel, so they remain the same whether you mount within the …
chroot - Restricting an SSH/SCP/SFTP user to a directory - Unix
Oct 5, 2012 · Is there a simple way to restrict an SCP/SFTP user to a directory? All methods that I've come across require me to set a chroot jail up by copying binaries, but I don't think that …
Error message "500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable …
I tried the allow_writeable_chroot=YES solution which did not work, and actually broke vsFTPd completely. I have tried: Fixing 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside …
How does ChrootDirectory and a user's home directory work …
Sep 18, 2019 · The setup needs to only support a single user with SFTP only access to a single folder. If the user's home directory is /home/user and in sshd_config I have ChrootDirectory as …
unix - Start a systemd service inside chroot from a non systemd …
This implies that, when I call systemctl from within the chroot, it is irrelevant that I am inside chroot, the environment that will be inherited is still that of PID 1, not my current one. But it …