Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:09:49 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Michael Reifenberger <mike@reifenberger.com> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/jexec jexec.8 jexec.c Message-ID: <200805281309.49683.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080526140735.GA35960@gw.reifenberger.com> References: <200805261157.m4QBvnpF025029@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080526144831.K26343@fledge.watson.org> <20080526140735.GA35960@gw.reifenberger.com>
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On Monday 26 May 2008 10:07:35 am Michael Reifenberger wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 02:49:16PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Mon, 26 May 2008, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > > > > > Extend jexec to accept hostname or ip-number besides jail-id. > > > > It might be worth adding a caution in the man page notes somewhere that > > neither hostname nor IP address are guaranteed to uniquely identify a jail > > -- > > in which case, which will jexec choose? > > I'll add some cautions to the man page. > The jail is found by an loop through the sysctl security.jail.list > and comparing argv against ip-number and hostname. > The first matching jail is used then. > Makes sense only for those who keep their jails uniquely identifyable > by hostname or ip-number, of corse. Maybe make it only work if it only matches a single jail? That would work for the common case while avoiding ambiguities in the complex cases. -- John Baldwin
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