One of the best things in Smalltalk or Squeak is the fact that there are almost no artificial barriers and you are free to explore. In a local environment, like on your laptop, there is not much to worry about. But if you use Squeak as a server and expose it to the world, like when you run a Seaside server, then you would like to have at least one high barrier that protects yourself from misuse.

What follows is my experience in setting up a restricted environment (chroot) on a linux box to run a Squeak server. (more…)