Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:27:13 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Idea for additional feature for jail - jailed security level
Message-ID:  <20010425122712.P1790@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200104251923.f3PJNcD41451@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:23:38PM -0700
References:  <74643.988226120@critter> <200104251923.f3PJNcD41451@earth.backplane.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
* Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> [010425 12:24] wrote:
> 
>     But if we have the ability to run at a higher securelevel inside a jail
>     we can allow console-root logins to access the system at the global
>     securelevel of -1 yet force every single other login to the system and
>     *ALL* services to run inside a jail (chroot to "/" essentially) with
>     a higher securelevel.
> 
>     Enforcing the securelevel combined with the use of chflags inside 
>     a prison, plus idea #2, gives us much more flexibility then the
>     hardwired restrictions jail() currently employs.

That's a really cool idea, you should talk to Robert Watson who's
working on "jailNG" though.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org]
Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010425122712.P1790>