Walter Hop wrote:
> Is there a tool available that combines chroot and su? If not, a
> chroot capability would be an interesting feature to add to the
> FreeBSD ``su'' command in my opinion, e.g.
> 
> % su -l ircd -r /usr/local/ircd -c 'bin/ircd'
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions would be welcomed. If I have overlooked a
> current solution for the chroot+su chicken/egg problem, I'd love to
> submit a patch for su to add such a chroot parameter, but I could
> imagine that the committer team is more conservative than I am. :)

Don't use "su".  Use the systemcalls "setgig" and "setuid" to drop
priviledges in the program itself.

-- Terry

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