From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 14:42:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2633A37B419 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:42:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b234.otenet.gr [212.205.244.242]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fA8MgEB24809; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:42:15 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA8MgFW02574; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:42:15 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:42:14 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011109004214.A2541@hades.hell.gr> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <009801c1688d$0b18d9e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Anthony Atkielski 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