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Stroller, i didn't knew what a chroot was back then either, but i've found |
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in gentoo a vdery good teacher. If you are willing to learn, with gentoo |
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you can go as deeper as you want and learn a lot. Most of the linux |
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knowledge i have i owe it to gentoo. |
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As far as i understand know, chroot is pretty much a cage. you confine the |
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system in a smaller folder structure and from the inside, you cannot access |
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the outside (while it's true the opposite). it's particularly handy to |
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"cage" a webserver for instance, so if someone hacks it, they don't see the |
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entire system, but only the portion you chrooted. |
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when installing gentoo, you chroot into the smaller gentoo system, |
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contiained into the booting distro, be it a livecd or another distro. |
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Il giorno 04/apr/2013 05:07, "Stroller" <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> ha |
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scritto: |
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> On 3 April 2013, at 20:36, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > ... |
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> > The reason I say Gentoo shouldn't worry about installers is that the |
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> > typical person installing Gentoo already knows about chroots. Someone |
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> > who doesn't is unlikely to consider Gentoo at all |
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> It's been a while, but I don't think I knew what a chroot was when I |
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> installed Gentoo. |
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> I can't say that I have a great understanding of chrooting today, or that |
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> I've ever used it for anything but installing Gentoo. |
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> Stroller. |
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