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  • Ventrilo Voice Communication Server In A Chrooted Environment On Ubuntu Feisty AMD64

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    Ventrilo Voice Communication Server In A Chrooted Environment On Ubuntu Feisty AMD64 This tutorial explains how to set up Ventrilo, a popular voice communication server, in a chrooted environment, and to run as a non-privileged user.  The main reason for doing this is security. Ventrilo is distributed only in binary format, which some people distrust. A chrooted environment means the program only has access to its home directory, not the entire system. Running it like this means that if there is a bug or exploit in Ventrilo, it is not likely to compromise the rest of the system.

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