On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 06:30 AM, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> > Actually it is normal for privsep processes to chroot themselves, usually
> > to /var/empty - e.g.
> 
> Right, so "no chroot necessary" (which is what I was responding to) isn't
> accurate.

Oh.  That's not what I got out of your comment.

>From this end-user's perspective, there's a pretty big difference from a user 
>perspective of 

(1) "it" uses privsep, and takes care of the chroot for you -- i.e., you don't 
mess with it, and it's all in a documented, predictable package

and 

(2) you have to monkey with all of it yourself.  It's either easy & insecure, 
or secure but 'good luck with it'.

Jason
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