Hack Admin » chroot http://www.hackadmin.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:31:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Chroot Jail for Untrusted Users http://www.hackadmin.com/2008/03/29/chroot-jail-for-untrusted-users/ http://www.hackadmin.com/2008/03/29/chroot-jail-for-untrusted-users/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:55:38 +0000 admin http://www.hackadmin.com/2008/03/29/chroot-jail-for-untrusted-users/ So we’ve been buying some websites recently and I’ve needed to let people into the web server to upload content and such. I knew I needed to put these folks someplace where they couldn’t hurt anything else, or more importantly, see anything else on the server. So, I went digging around for an FAQ on how to most effectively get this done and I came across this script:

Chroot Jail

It’s quite nice.

Basically, you just pull that script down and get it on your machine. Then you feed it a username and let it go to work.

When it’s done, you’ll have a new user who is isolated to /home/jail. Their home dir will be in /home/jail/home and they can shell in and do whatever.

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