BSD/UNIX News
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Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework – part 1: Introduction and installation
One interesting feature introduced in early Unix (V7) is the chroot(2) syscall (accompanied by the chroot(8) command added later). They allow for putting processes in what is called a chroot jail. What this means is that for the chrooted process (and its children) the filesystem root is not the one of the actual host system but some directory further down the filesystem hierarchy. The result is restricting access to that directory and all the dirs below it and hiding away everything above. This allows for some simple sandboxing and is often used e.g. with FTP where users are chrooted to their home directory.
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rpki-client 8.2 released
A new release of the OpenBSD rpki-client, a key component in BGP routing security is available.
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Valuable News - 2022/12/12 | 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here.