With the release of OpenSSH 4.9p1, you no longer have to rely on third-party hacks or complicated chroot setups to confine users to their home directories or give them access to SFTP services. Vincent ...

Jack Wallen shows you a GUI that takes the complication out of creating and using chroot environments on Linux. Chroot environments, which have been a feature of Linux for some time, create isolation ...

The chroot() system call is often misunderstood, as it can appear to do much more than it actually does. The confusion arises because it appears to some to be a security tool – there are limited ...

Using packages such as mod_chroot for use with Apache, or Jailkit, an open-source project with a handful of utilities, can make configuring a chroot jail much more efficient and even automated in some ...

One of the things I both love and hate about my job is getting assigned new projects. They can be about anything and everything. A few months back I was given an assignment to create some chroot jails ...

People are well aware of the power of virtual machines. If you want to do something dangerous — say, hack on the kernel — you can create a virtual machine, snapshot it, screw it up a few times, ...

The advice to not use chroot() for "security" is just plain wrong. "Security" involves innumerable facets of programming. To say that because something doesn't address all of them simultaneously, and ...