Is my host being ridiculous?
Is my host being ridiculous?
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- sparker0
no.
a physical user is one created on the linux box.
ie.
$ useradd sparker
adds the user account "sparker" to the server.
so, now i can log into the server (at the console, through ssh, etc).
this is different than say a virtual user created with LDAP or other system.
jailed is a security feature that basically locks users, daemons, etc into a secure environment on the server....say a particular directory.
keeps them from mucking up the rest of the box if someone does exploit it.
in a nutshell.