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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing
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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

by Chiheb Chebbi
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
396 pages
9h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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The chroot command 

chroot is a technique for separating a non-root process and its children from the other system components. This isolation is designed in the Linux operating system, to make sure that when a subsystem is compromised, it won't affect the entire system. The idea is to make the process think that it runs in the root folder, but in fact, it will be in a directory created by the administrator. So, let's take a look at the required steps to build a chroot jail: 

  1. First, you need to create a new user and name it; for example, prisoner:
  1. Add the user to group root gpasswd -a prisoner root
  2. You can check whether you added the new ...
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ISBN: 9781788624480