General Information
Chrooting has been around for a long time now. Chrooting makes a program believe that the root of the file system is higher up in the hierarchy. For example, if I wanted to create a chroot in /chroot/httpd, a program executed from within the chroot would believe that “/chroot/httpd” was actually “/”. There in lies the beauty as the program can’t reach any files outside “/chroot/httpd”. Security of the server as a whole is increased due to the fact that the system binaries are off limits. In addition, chroots usually only have the bare minimum files inside, so exploits have a harder time breaking in.