chroot and /dev

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:18:11PM +0000, Dieter wrote:
> How does one provide one or two devices, e.g. /dev/null
> for a chroot environment?
> 
> Device nodes created by mknod do not work.
> 
> mount_devfs creates an entire device tree, negating
> the security of the chroot.

See the jail manpage (jail is better than chroot if security is your
goal).

Kris
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