[Dovecot] Chrooting dovecot.

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 23:41 -0800, BSD Mail wrote:
> root     dovecot    481   5  tcp4   10.0.1.4:993          *:*
> root     dovecot    481   6  tcp4   10.0.1.4:995          *:*
> 
> Fine for the first six lines it's doing what it's doing. But the last
> two lines are running as root. That is why I want to chroot the
> server. I would like if anyone can point me to some howto or notes on
> how to do so. If there is none I will have to configure a jail just
> for this purpose.

The chrooting options in config file are meant for chrooting login,
auth, imap and pop3 processes. By default it's chrooting login
processes. Having the master process itself chrooted isn't supported.. 

Does FreeBSD prevent root user from escaping chroot? Last I heard Linux
didn't even try.

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