Thanks for the link!
However I have found that the jail is not the best solution for this. After failing numerous times to make this work I have realized it is easier to write a small C app to do what I want.
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I am doing this for the first time and could really use some help. I am trying to figure out how I can setup a jail on Linux similar to that of FreeBSD Jails.
Essentially what I am trying to accomplish is this...
I want a user to only be able to login and only have access to restart a few services. Nothing else. No directory searching or anything of the sort, quite literally just restart a few services.
I looked at using a chroot environment but I can't seem to figure out how to make the services run from that environment. I was hoping that the chroot environment would behave like a virtualized FreeBSD jail but I can't quite seem to make it work that way. (Maybe someone can help me figure out what I am doing incorrectly?)
I was wondering if anyone had any details or "HowTos" I could use. So far Google has returned many things about chroot jails on user environments but nothing on what I want.
Thanks in advance!
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by: owensleftfootPosted on 2009-07-30 at 00:16:15ID: 24977313
Have a look at http://linuxjail.sourcefor ge.net/