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Date:      Tue, 09 Nov 1999 14:41:04 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Should jail treat ip-number? 
Message-ID:  <23737.942154864@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Nov 1999 05:29:51 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911090527520.39794-100000@moo.sysabend.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911090527520.39794-100000@moo.sysabend.org>, Jamie Bowden
 writes:
>
>-security stripped
>
>On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>:In message <19991109125445E.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp>, Yoshinobu Inoue writes:
>
>:>(2)What is the goal of the restriction?
>
>:To isolate people in the jail from the "real" machine and from
>:other jails.
>
>What does jail do that chroot doesn't?  I've seen several discussions on
>jail on -hackers, but no explanation of why it was implemented, or how
>it's different from chroot.

1. All tcp/ip forced to use a particular IP#.  This allows you to have
   several inetd/sendmail/apache running, one per jail.

2. Many things which root can normally do cannot be done if root is jailed.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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