John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering scripsit:
>> What if chroot works for non-privileged users on some type of system?
> That sounds extremely unlikely, [...]

It's not so far-fetched.
There's a hint on the first lines of "info coreutils chroot":

    `chroot' runs a command with a specified root directory.  On many
    systems, only the super-user can do this.  Synopses:

I wrote "many" rather than "all" for a good reason.
A quick search shows there is at least one exception:

    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2003-April/000125.html


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