Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:43:00 +0100 From: Elliot Crosby-McCullough <freebsd@xianshi.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Requesting advice on Jail technique. Message-ID: <4326D764.1040402@xianshi.org>
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Dear all, I will shortly be creating a public service on a private box that will include shell access to untrusted users and would like your opinion on the best way to go about this. Obviously jails are a good start, but my main concern is whether to go for one large jail for all the restricted users or one small jail per user. I do not have a wealth of real IPs at my disposal but accountability and security is paramount, therefore I would like to use local IPs through NAT (within the one box) whilst retaining the translation logs. I would like to use one local IP per user in order to keep track of activity. I can afford a few real IPs for the purpose. The accounts themselves will be supremely limited. No root access, just basics such as ssh, perhaps telnet, mutt etc. I do not want the users to have the ability to run any scripts, so perl etc is out, but I suppose the NAT firewall will be a fallback if any compiled programs are uploaded. Each user account is likely to have email/gpg etc but I'm happy to control that from the host system with virtual users and simply deliver into the jail. It is not necessary for the jails to run any services, except the ability to SSH in. As you can see there are factors pulling in both directions, what would you recommend as the best direction to go? Sincerely, Elliot Crosby-McCullough
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