Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:42:14 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011109004214.A2541@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <009801c1688d$0b18d9e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15330.6606.417524.41024@guru.mired.org><002b01c1635f$5a5f4300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15330.14419.809266.281360@guru.mired.org> <007e01c1636e$97016d10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011108021537.E79276@hades.hell.gr> <002801c1682c$818807b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011108154407.B2965@hades.hell.gr> <009801c1688d$0b18d9e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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From: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Date: Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:39:00PM +0100 > Giorgos writes: > > > If the need for Telnet arises (someone who > > doesn't have an SSH client on their Windows > > box), I have set up a jail ... > > What's a jail? (Apart from the common definition, of course--I assume this is > something special in FreeBSD.) Read jail(8) and the article at http://www.daemonnews.org/200109/jailint.html :-) It's a way to `imprison' processes and limit the damage that compromised programs can do to a running system. Something like `a chroot on anabolics' :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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