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This is the second release of the chrootuid utility. Douglas Lee
Schales (Doug.Schales@sc.tamu.edu) offered valuable suggestions to
improve ease of use and robustness -- thanks.
Chrootuid makes it easy to run a network service at low privilege level
and with restricted file system access. At Eindhoven University we use
this program to run the gopher and www (world-wide web) network daemons
in a restricted environment: the daemons have access only to their own
directory tree, and run under a low-privileged userid. The arrangement
greatly reduces the impact of possible loopholes in daemon software.
Changes: it is no longer necessary to have passwd or group files within
the restricted directory tree. The sample tree at the end of the README
file has been updated; I've added specific hints for Ultrix 4.x, and
general hints for other environments.