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Thank to Aaron and Vernon for explaining chroot better.

Tony's session on "Building PHP Extensions on IBM i".. and his use of chroot to protect his system from bad installs, developers, users and hackers alike.

I might not, as a IBM i newbie, understood all of the implications; but I understood the benefit to protecting your system.

Tony calls it placing users in Jail, I think of it as creating a sandbox that has all the tools you need as if you had logged into the root. The big exception being that you can not get any higher than the directory you have been chrooted into.

You can allow the Jail / Sandbox to be broken and give access to system files, but that would be defeating the point.

So once in the chroot, you simple access the Database from an URL.

I have yet to get into my partition and try this out. I may have to call Tony and have him hold me hand.

Sorry Pete for not being about to express or explain this better.

Laters
Building PHP Extensions on IBM i
Rob


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