GPG in a chroot env
   
    David Shaw
     
    dshaw@jabberwocky.com
       
    Thu Jul 12 20:01:02 2001
    
    
  
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:51:51AM -0500, Frank Tobin wrote:
> Werner Koch, at 08:39 on 12 Jul 2001, wrote:
> 
> 
>     > Has no one done this before?  Or does it just not work?
> 
>     GnuPG is a pretty standard Unix program and should not have problems
>     if you run it chrooted.  You just have to take the usual steps to make
>     a program run there.  As you probably don't have access to the tty you
>     should use the option --no-tty.
> 
> What about /dev/random access?
Since /dev/random is a device, can't you just mknod another one within
the chroot jail?
David
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