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		mr_toad on Feb 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dotfile madness It’s a shame Unix doesn’t have a chhome utility that functions like chroot.

JdeBP on Feb 2, 2019 [–]

Just changing the HOME environment variable, which would be what such a hypothetical utility would boil down to, does not address what sakoht was talking about, which is Hurd-style subsetting of a user's account and files.

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