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Date:      Wed, 11 May 2011 11:21:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rooting FreeBSD , Privilege Escalation using Jails
Message-ID:  <20110511183629.3ED3D106566B@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110511120032.7D5FB10657F4@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20110511120032.7D5FB10657F4@hub.freebsd.org>

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Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> writes:
>> Dumb question: the jail command can refuse to run unless the
>> parent of a jail root is 0700. Would that work? No kernel hack
>> required.
>
> All right, this is getting ridiculous.

It's far past the point of being ridiculous, so far in fact that I would
not be surprised if someone employed by Redhat, Canonical or the FSF was
behind paid to astroturf.  The tactic may have worked for Gnome, KDE, and
a large number of apps but FreeBSD coders are generally more experienced
than that.

Roger Marquis



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