A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children.
Questions tagged [chroot]
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OpenSSL-related linker error while building PHP 5.3.3
While trying to build PHP 5.3.3 on Debian jessie (save yourself some sanity by not asking why) with OpenSSL extension enabled, I encountered undefined reference to symbol 'X509_free@@OPENSSL_1.0.0' in the linking step of the Makefile and couldn't…

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Segmentation fault when building centos 5 chroot
For some legacy application I decided to use chroot with CentOS 5.
I did install CentOS 5 on virtual machine, then I boot virtual machine with live CD and using tar, I "copied" the files from the virtual disk to my (Linux laptop's) HDD.
Then I tried…

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mariadb in chroot gives Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' even though password is set
I have a script that runs mariadb in a chroot, its a qemu-arm-static rasoberrypi chroot but I don't that that should change much.
The script installs and then sets the password for mariadb root user, then tries to create a database as user 'pi'…

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How to properly chroot when using key based authentication within openssh-server
I'm running a Debian Stretch x86_64 server, with OpenSSH_7.4p1 Debian-10+deb9u3, OpenSSL 1.0.2l 25 May 2017.
I want to use chroots in combination with OpenSSH server's internal SFTP system. My current setup seems to work, unfortunately excluding…

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Chroot a user in Amazon EC2 instance
I've got an Amazon Linux AMI machine running 2016.09 version. I've recently created a user and I'm able to connect using its credentials (private key).
This user is intended to be used by a third party and I want to restrict its access to its home…

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vsftpd and chroot: can i share the chroot folder between two users?
I have a vsftpd installation with chroot enabled and root access disabled.
Everything work flawlessy, but I need to accomplish this.
When user1 log into ftps, it log in /home/user1. Same for user2, user3 and so on.
I want to have user1_viewer which…

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Chroot on subdirectory from home website (SFTP)
On a Debian apache2 server I'm trying to give access on a subdirectory of a webstie tree (Website home dir : /home/website/public_html/, access wanted only for a specific user: /home/website/public_html/boutique/modules/sftpwkmodules
So main website…

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Chroot Jailing of an user to their home with PHP CLI and everything to run Magento 2 CLi commands
Ok, so first off I'm pretty sure there's gonna be a load of "additional info" requests so please post them in the OP comments and I'll do my best to provide extra info on request!
Here's the skinny, first the server :
It is a Shared staging…

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Debian - chroot ntpd Issues
I would like to configure the ntp daemon inside a chroot enviroment.
The OS I am suing is Debian 9.1, kernel 3.16.0-4-686-pae
The service run as:
/usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -i /var/chroot/ntp -u ntp:ntp -l /var/log/ntpd.log
The problems I…

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ssh chroot to lxc container
I have a PC with sshd service (192.168.1.1).
The PC contains two users user1 and user2.
I installed lxc service and configured a container.
How can I configure ssh server on 192.168.1.1 that connecting user2 will be chrooted to lxc container.

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How to chroot accounts for using scp in Amazon Linux?
I need to setup an scp server. Suppliers will upload files to that server via scp (not sftp). While configuration was easy for sftp, I really struggle with scp. There are some instructions and how-tos for other operating systems on the web. I tried…

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How to get usernames to show in chrooted SFTP?
Under normal SFTP, I see owner and group usernames. Under chrooted SFTP (via internal-sftp in sshd_config), I see numeric user IDs for owner and group.
What do I need to do to get usernames to show up?

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Ubuntu FTP user has access to every directory
I just created a new user on Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS with useradd. I have vsftpd installed, and #chroot_local_user=YES still commented out. Yet when i connect with my user through FTP to my server, he can see and access every single folder on the…

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Restricting SSH shell access to Debian server
Still new to the whole Debian thing so bear with me.
The only thing I want a user logged in via SSH. No files or directories (like /etc, /var) should be visible at that point.
The only thing the user can do is to "su" to login into root and then…

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nginx + php-fpm chdir not working
I'm meeting a problem with getting my nginx and php-fpm working.
I'm getting an error 504 when I try to access my application.
I have a structure like this;
data/mywebsite/
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|---revisions/
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|---released/
|---web/
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