(chroot tools)

[Derek M. <co...@pi...>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 06:06:59AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I published some tools to set these up some time ago, including an
> enhanced "mkchroot.sh" tool and and a "mkchroot-passwd.sh" tool for
> just this sort of setup at https://github.com/nkadel/rssh-chroot-tools
>
> If anyone wants to take on real maintenance for rssh, I'd love to
> see those tools lintegrated.

The reason I never integrated any such tools is because they are
inherently platform-specific, and/or environment-specific.  Your tools
appear to be specific to red hat distros which are installed with
default installs, but they probably won't work on customized installs,
or any number of other distros of varying ages, and almost certainly
won't work on any other flavor of Unix--all of which are (at least in
theory) supported by RSSH.  The problem could be addressed with, say,
a heirarchical contrib directory of tools which are careful to take
lots of parameters for flexibility; but I didn't want to maintain
that, especially since I can't test it (and wouldn't want to, even if
I could).  It could, *in theory*, also be addressed by a single set of
tools that knows what to do for all the various platforms and takes
all relevant paths as options... but in my mind such a tool would be
so unweildy to use that you'd be better off doing it by hand anyway.
;)

Frankly, I don't think integration of such tools into the code base
makes sense, for those reasons.  It seems like a separate, 
complementary software project to me.

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