February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
396 pages
9h 38m
English
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:
