multiple users in chroot

[Broetchen]

> certainly.

hmm, that's nice! Do you know where to find more information (I've been
looking for quite a while now)?

[Doug Freyburger]

Broetchen wrote:

>
> hmm, that's nice! Do you know where to find more information (I've been
> looking for quite a while now)?

A chroot environment has its own passwd file. Getting several users
into the environment involves having more than one line in that
passwd file. Getting the user process into the chroot environment
in the first palce is no different from one user to another so if
you can do it with one you can do it with a thousand.

[Mark Rafn]

Broetchen <y0013515@tu-bs.de> wrote:

>Is it possible to support multiple users in one chroot environment?

Sure. Why wouldn't it be?

Of course, the processes sharing a chroot parent won't be as protected from
each other as having their own sandbox/jail.

>Are there other solutions than creating user accounts in this chroot
>environment? Is it possible to manage data of multiple users logging into
>this environement with the same username (kind of anonymous access)?

Depends entirely on what services you provide and what you consider to be a
"different user". Anonymous access works for some applications, which then
provide their own user-identification and security as needed. It doesn't for
most.

>If so, how difficult would it be?

Anywhere between trivial (give out the anonymous username and erase it's
password) and impossible (to have any sort of inter-user security when they
all use the same login id).
--
Mark Rafn [email]dagon@dagon.net[/email] <http://www.dagon.net/>

[Dave Hinz]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:19:11 +1000, Broetchen <y0013515@tu-bs.de> wrote:

>> certainly.

>
> hmm, that's nice! Do you know where to find more information (I've been
> looking for quite a while now)?

Well, _this_ will help:
[url]http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html[/url]

Seriously, take a look. Doesn't answer your question but it will
help you ask ones more likely to get you useful answers.