> That last seems to me to be the biggie. Several times in the past few > years, people in this mailing list have tried to build a safe sandbox. > And each one was a big failure, for a hacker of sufficient interest. > Some of them were spectacular failures. > > If you have to be safe from your user, Python may be the wrong language > to give them.
Well, the course is about Python and I want to test Python scripts... I've heard about "chroot jail" but I never used it. Wikipedia says: "A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is run in such a modified environment cannot name (and therefore normally not access) files outside the designated directory tree. The term "chroot" may refer to the chroot(2) system call or the chroot(8) wrapper program. The modified environment is called a "chroot jail"." I guess it could be used for sandboxing. Laszlo -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
