Jailkit Allows quick creation of limited user accounts in a chroot jail.
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Allows quick creation of limited user accounts in a chroot jail. Jailkit project is a set of utilities to limit user accounts to specific files using chroot() and or specific commands.Setting up a chroot shell, a shell limited to some specific command, or a daemon inside a chroot jail is a lot easier using these utilities.Jailkit is often used on CVS servers (in a chroot and limited to cvs), sftp/scp servers (both in a chroot and limited to sftp/scp as well as not in a chroot but only limited to sftp/scp), and also on general servers with accounts where the shell accounts are in a chroot.Jailkit is furthermore used to jail daemon processes, for example apache servers, bzflag servers, squid proxy servers, etc.Installation:./configuremakesu rootmake installNow copy the startup script to your init directory, on Debian this is cp extra/jailkit /etc/init.d/jailkit And create the correct symlinks, on Debian you run update-rc.d jailkit defaultsOn Red Hat/Fedora systems you runchkconfig jailkit on Requirements: · Python What's New in This Release: · The fixes from 2.9 caused an incompatibility with jk_jailuser, which is fixed in this release. · This release furthermore fixes some compiler warnings.

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