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Cage

cage is a replacement for the chroot(8) utility. Like chroot, cage changes its root directory to the one specified and then executes your application. Before execing, however, cage drops all privileges that would let the program escape its jail.

Last updated 20 Nov, 2001


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  • libcap (Weak Prerequisite)
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Jailkit, chroot_safe

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0.80

0.80 stable released 2001-11-19

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