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Sandboxing & CHROOT

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CHROOT (Changed Root) Jail

CHROOT essentially means that a user or application has it's root changed, essentially locking it away from the rest of the server filesystem.

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There are limitations ofto using a CHROOT Jail, an example being that applications that are chroot'edchrooted are unable to communicate with each other.

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Sandboxing

Sandboxing essentially means that an application and its dependencies are 'wrapped' together. This is useful if you have 2 packages which share a dependency, but require different versions of that dependency.

 

 

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