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>As of version 1.7.0, <SPAN
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>yule</SPAN
>is able to chroot
itself after startup and initialization, either by using the
command line option</P
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>or by requesting it in the configuration file:</P
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<B
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>In order to prepare for the chroot jail, the following is required:</P
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>In the <TT
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>scripts</TT
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of the source directory there is a script <TT
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>chroot.sh</TT
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>    Compile normally. Make sure you use either <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>dev/random</TT
>
    (default if existing) or EGD (Entropy Gathering Daemon) for the 
    entropy device. If <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>dev/random</TT
> does not exist,
    the default is the 'standard unix entropy gatherer', which uses
    the output of many system commands, and therefore is not suitable
    within a chroot jail. 
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>    Install with the command(s):
    </P
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> make DESTDIR=<TT
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>/chrootdir</I
></TT
> install</KBD
>
<SAMP
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>bash$</SAMP
><KBD
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> make DESTDIR=<TT
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><I
>/chrootdir</I
></TT
> install-user</KBD
>
<SAMP
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>    Fix the path to the <SPAN
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>yule</SPAN
> binary in the
    runlevel start/stop script installed by the last command. 
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>    Prepare the chroot environment. Basically, you need under
    <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/chrootdir</TT
>
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> 
    (a) an entropy device,
    either <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>dev/random</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>dev/urandom</TT
>, 
    or an EGD (Entropy Gathering Daemon) socket, 
    </P
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> 
    (b) minimum <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>etc/passwd</TT
>, <TT
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>etc/group</TT
>
    files, at least with entries for root and the unprivileged 
    <SPAN
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>yule</SPAN
> user. Replace passwords with an asterix,
    and make sure the homedirectory of the unprivileged 
    <SPAN
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>yule</SPAN
> user is correct within the chroot jail.
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> 
    (c) files required for DNS: <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>etc/nsswitch.conf</TT
>,
     <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>etc/hosts</TT
>, 
     <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>etc/host.conf</TT
>,
     <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>etc/resolv.conf</TT
>,
     <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>etc/services</TT
>,
     <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>etc/protocols</TT
>.
     </P
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>    Create a symlink <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/etc/yulerc</TT
> to 
    <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/chrootdir/etc/yulerc</TT
> (no, it will not work
    the other way round).
    </P
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>Because <SPAN
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>yule</SPAN
> chroots after startup, there is no
need to copy shared libraries into the chroot jail. They will be loaded
upon startup, before the chroot() occurs.</P
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>If you are using syslog logging, you need a <TT
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socket in the chroot jail. Modern <SPAN
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>syslog</SPAN
>
incarnations will allow you to have an additional socket using the command:</P
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>If you are using a GnuPG-signed configuration, you will need a working
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