chroot(1M)

Danny Boulet dab at myrias.com
Fri Dec 1 05:36:42 AEST 1989


In article <1989Nov28.134104.6252 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>A clean way to do this is to use a little known function of login (yes, it 
>is documented).  If login sees an * as the login shell for a particular user,
>it will chroot to the user's directory and re-execute /etc/login.

Interesting.  What versions of UNIX support this?



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