Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:58:00 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Your Name <yusca@yus.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chroot and su user Message-ID: <20031003165800.GA56583@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <E1A5S7n-000689-DI@rslrs2-server.com> References: <E1A5S7n-000689-DI@rslrs2-server.com>
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:45:47AM -0400, Your Name wrote:
> Can you teach me what is the different between
> chroot and su user
Even a cursory glance at the chroot(8) and su(1) man pages will answer
this. 'chroot' is "change root directory": that is confine a process
and all of it's children to a subsection of the disk space. 'su' is
"substitute user identity" -- run programs using the identity and
credentials of a different user.
Cheers,
Matthew
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