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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:54:08 -0500
From:      Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com>
To:        "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Jail question
Message-ID:  <200202150354.g1F3sEl61611@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
In-Reply-To: <20020214155838.E36782@blossom.cjclark.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202141430160.25249-100000@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <20020214155838.E36782@blossom.cjclark.org>

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On Thursday 14 February 2002 06:58 pm, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:35:47PM +0000, Jim Durham wrote:
> > I just recently discovered jail and started reading the
> > material by phk on how it works.
> >
> > Ok, you can have a general over-all supervisory root account and
> > you can have a root account in each jail.
> >
> > Let's say you make a jail for each department in a company.
> > Suppose you have a situation where you have certain users who
> > are not capable of system administration, but, they are supervisors
> > who need to be able to read and modify files in all the jails, but
> > not modify system config files, etc owned by the jail root account.
> >
> > How could you accomplish this?
>
> That's not what jail(8)s are really for. I think you just need to look
> at group(5) ownership of files.

Already doing that.On Thursday 14 February 2002 06:58 pm, Crist J. Clark 
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:35:47PM +0000, Jim Durham wrote:
> > I just recently discovered jail and started reading the
> > material by phk on how it works.
> >
> > Ok, you can have a general over-all supervisory root account and
> > you can have a root account in each jail.
> >
> > Let's say you make a jail for each department in a company.
> > Suppose you have a situation where you have certain users who
> > are not capable of system administration, but, they are supervisors
> > who need to be able to read and modify files in all the jails, but
> > not modify system config files, etc owned by the jail root account.
> >
> > How could you accomplish this?
>
> That's not what jail(8)s are really for. I think you just need to look
> at group(5) ownership of files.

Already doing that. It's not really flexible enough but I live with it.

Thanks
-Jim





The jail idea was just a 

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