[Gllug] Apache and chroot

[Martin A. Brooks]

Bernard Peek wrote:
> I'm planning to hang a small server off of my broadband router and I'm 
> planning to run scp, ssh and http services. I don't see any reason why I 
> shouldn't chroot the applications, just to teach myself how to do it. 
> I'm a newbie with Linux.

chroots are mostly pointless these days[0], and a hangover from when 
services routinely ran as root. Good proactive security procedures will 
do you more good than using a chroot.

Mart.


[0]  Cue flame war.
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