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Special Forums Cybersecurity How to jail a process in his repertory ? Post 302581289 by jim mcnamara on Monday 12th of December 2011 03:57:37 PM
Old 12-12-2011
You cannot chroot a process, you chroot jail a user account.

Create a user that has a home directory: /repertory/to/process, so /reprtory is really / for that user.

There are guides for for how to do this - most examples use ssh user accounts - here is an example:
Building a Secure User Environment with SSH ChRoot
 

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CHROOT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 CHROOT(8)

NAME
chroot -- change root directory SYNOPSIS
chroot [-u user] [-g group] [-G group,group,...] newroot [command] DESCRIPTION
The chroot utility changes its current and root directories to the supplied directory newroot and then exec's command, if supplied, or an interactive copy of the user's login shell. If the -u, -g or -G options are given, the user, group and group list of the process are set to these values after the chroot has taken place. ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variable is referenced by chroot: SHELL If set, the string specified by SHELL is interpreted as the name of the shell to exec. If the variable SHELL is not set, /bin/sh is used. SEE ALSO
chdir(2), chroot(2), setgid(2), setgroups(2), setuid(2), getgrnam(3), environ(7), jail(8) HISTORY
The chroot utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. BSD
June 7, 2003 BSD
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