chroot(1M)

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <628454203.18188 at myrias.com> by dab at myrias.com (Danny Boulet):
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| 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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System V release 2 and later.  It's referred to as "sublogin" if/when it's
documented.

++Brandon
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