andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) (08/19/89)
I would like to modify a user login shell to include a call to chroot at the beginning of the shell. This is easily accomplished by using bash for which I have sources. The problem is that chroot is only callable by the superuser. This means that the shell would have to be setuid to root, which kind of introduces a security problem. Is there a way to have a normal user log on and only see one branch of the directory tree? Is it possible for the shell, for example, to change its own uid to it changes back to the user's uid after the chroot call has been made? I jes' gots to know! Thanks, -- Andrew Thomas andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo "If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus