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From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: chroot
To: "Neil C. Jensen" <njensen@salsa.habaneros.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:57:24 +0000 ()
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> 
> The permissions on chroot are correct:
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  8192 Jul 16 19:33 /usr/sbin/chroot
> 
> If I use "/usr/sbin/chroot /home/terminal" as my login shell, the
> exact error message is "login: /usr/sbin/chroot /home/terminal:
> permission denied".

You have to be root to run chroot.  When a user logs in, the login
shell is run as that user, and the user doesn't have permission to
run chroot.