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Date:      Tue, 09 Nov 1999 14:04:38 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Should jail treat ip-number? 
Message-ID:  <199911092104.OAA01171@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Nov 1999 05:29:51 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911090527520.39794-100000@moo.sysabend.org> 
References:  <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:
: 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.

It restricts root's ability to do things which would otherwise allow,
amoung other things, it to climb out of a chroot'd directory.  It also
doesn't allow root to create device entries, which helps to keep your
data safer.

Warner


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