I just named my first child Tim (Thanks!)

On 9/12/07, Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On 11 Sep 2007, at 11:02 pm, Clayton Dukes wrote:
>
> > This is probably a dumb question since it defeats the purpose of a
> > chroot jail but...
> >
> > I've got rssh set up and working fine for sftp but is there a way
> > to give the user access to a directory mounted on another disk?
> >
>
> If you're using Linux, you can use a bind mount to mount a directory
> that's outside the chroot to an additional place inside the chroot.
> This trick is commonly used by Debian developers for building
> packages for different releases of Debian; for example I usually have
> two chroots for Debian development, one that contains an install of
> the stable branch, and one that contains an install of the testing
> branch.  I then bind-mount my home directory into each chroot, so
> that when I enter each chroot, I can still see my home directory.
>
> For example:
>
> mount --bind /home /path/to/chroot/home
>
> You can make this automatic by putting it in the /etc/fstab
>
> /home  /path/to/chroot/home none bind 0 0
>
> I imagine this has various security implications, especially if you
> bind mount a directory which contains code which could be executed by
> the host operating system, but it's up to you to make that safe, and
> decide whether the security risk is acceptable.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>
>
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