chroot'ed environments (Re: Secure (regular) Scripts_)

[Jeremy J. Epstein]

In article <Y#DN!=@rpi.edu>, tale at cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
> In article <2481 at pkmab.se> ske at pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes:
> > Is there any way to allow a "chroot-ed" user to exchange mail and news
> > with the rest of the system? I've tried to come up with a simple solution,
> > but failed. The problem is that the spool directories for mail and news
> > are not accessible from inside the "chroot-ed" environment.
> 
> ...  For example,
> in a Berkeley enviroment you could put /chroot on a big partition with
> /chroot/spool as one of the subdirectories.  Make a link from
> /var/spool/mail to /chroot/spool/mail and you're in business.

Presumably that should be /chroot/usr/spool/mail or /chroot/var/spool/mail?
Otherwise once you do the chroot to /chroot, the path name will be /spool,
which probably wasn't what you had in mind.

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