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User Privileges

It is possible to run zrepl as an unprivileged user in combination with ZFS delegation. Also, there is the possibility to run it in a jail on FreeBSD by delegating a dataset to the jail.

Tip

Note: check out the FreeBSD Jail With iocage for FreeBSD jail setup instructions.