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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: chroot(1M)
Message-ID: <1989Dec2.024951.18611@virtech.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 89 02:49:51 GMT
References: <10358@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <1989Nov28.134104.6252@virtech.uucp> <628454203.18188@myrias.com>
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In article <628454203.18188@myrias.com>, dab@myrias.com (Danny Boulet) writes:
> 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?

I have found it documented back to System V Release 2.1.  I don't know
where it started.  I never noticed it until I was working on some
modifications to login in system V Release 3.

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