Re: [Jailkit-users] chroot Jail for Python

[Olivier Sessink]

Gregory Piñero wrote:
> On 6/5/07, Olivier Sessink <address@hidden> wrote:
> > just move into the jailkit directory, and run `autoconf && ./configure
> > && make`
> > than run as root 'make install'
> > that will give you the latest jailkit development version
>
> I'll do this on my home computer to test it.  When I'm ready to move
> it to my web host (I don't have root access), can I still build, etc
> it there?  Any advice on that?

you need root access to install Jailkit...!?!

> I saw a program called "fakechroot"
> (http://fakechroot.alioth.debian.org/), would this make that
> uneccesary then?  Would you say jk_uchroot does the same thing?

fakeroot is a Debian utility to create packages. It does not help you in 
 any way to  create a chroot, or to isolate processes for security. So 
jk_uchroot is very different from fakeroot.

regards,
        Olivier