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From: dab@myrias.com (Danny Boulet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: chroot(1M)
Message-ID: <628454203.18188@myrias.com>
Date: 30 Nov 89 18:36:42 GMT
References: <10358@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <1989Nov28.134104.6252@virtech.uucp>
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In article <1989Nov28.134104.6252@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>A clean way to do this is to use a little known function of login (yes, it 
>is documented).  If login sees an * as the login shell for a particular user,
>it will chroot to the user's directory and re-execute /etc/login.

Interesting.  What versions of UNIX support this?