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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: chroot(1M)
Message-ID: <1989Dec2.004722.20080@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 2 Dec 89 00:47:22 GMT
References: <10358@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <1989Nov28.134104.6252@virtech.uucp> <628454203.18188@myrias.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <628454203.18188@myrias.com> by dab@myrias.com (Danny Boulet):
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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?
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System V release 2 and later.  It's referred to as "sublogin" if/when it's
documented.

++Brandon
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