[NMLUG] chroot -- can somebody help me out?

[sam.noble at comcast.net (Sam Noble)]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 10:15 -0700, Jody Harris wrote:
> Maybe I just don't have the system configured correctly, or maybe I'm 
> taking the whole wrong approach....
> 
> I'd like to: run Firefox in a chroot jail
> 
> How?
> 
> man chroot --> look at the info page
> 
> info coreutils chroot --> not much more help.
> 
> Am I going to have to install Gentoo and make everything statically linked?
> 
> No matter what directory I select as the new root, I get the same 
> message, "cannot change root directory to /my/path: Operation not permitted"
> 

On a Debian system you:

$ mkdir ~/choot-jail

# apt-get install debootstrap

# debootstrap woody ~/chroot-jail

# chroot ~/chroot-jail

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