I am a newb to chrooting, and quite honestly it might even be over my head but if anyone could help me with some good docs, (especially those put out there for newbs) especially for fedora core I am running FC1, and am having difficulty finding some good documentation on it, googled but I don't find to much recent, I am sure this is plenty out there but I am unfirmiliar with it.

chroot can be used with many applications... what are you interested in doing with chroot??

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature..._story-99.html

I have not read that page yet, but to let you know I want to chroot a few users into home directory so that they can't work outside of them, they don't need to do anything special, I want to figure out how to do this because my step-brother wants me to host a web site for him but I want to make sure that if he has a weak password and somebody gets in (though this is unlikely being on a network if he decides he wants on remotly though...) that they can't do anything, as well as make sure that he doesn't try to do anything funny, (we are both 16) and though he knows absolutly nothing about linux, that doesnt mean you can't unintentinally screw something up, I will be using ssh if I do host a site for him and let him into my system from his network computer. Anyways I suppose I also would like to learn how to chroot just for the expierience, summer breaks almost over so I am trying to cram in as much as possable b4 the school year. I think that this kind of chroot should be fairly easy (from what I read) since it should just be dropping and grabbing files, so they will not need to access many applications to run minimally. Anyways if you have any documentation on ssh on fc1 specifically I would appreciate it and I am going to read up on your article there, before I think about going to sleep for the night. I will post again if I find a solution to my issue somewhere, also chroot preferably compatiable with ssh1/2 because I have read this can be an issue.

I think the documentation given is older, either that or the sites are down, many links I found to be broken, but the actual article I read was quite interesting, I will look a little further into it, again any documentation on doing this to ssh in fc1 would be cool, if I learn to chroot peoples home directories will i learn to chroot just about anything I want? because I think that would be a large accomplishment for me.

actually, it DOES... the only way he can screw something-up is if he knows the root password, or if he finds a security hole and exploits it...

Here is a how-to called "Chrooting Apache"
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/24/1450203

Here is a link to a 'chroot-login howto':
http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/d...gin-howto.html

There are lots of chroot-bind howtos. Besides googling ( is that a verb? ) a good starting point to look for documentation is the Linux Documentation Project website (www.tldp.org).