From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 16:39:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.droso.net [193.162.142.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C3337B417 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:39:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D1D605BD9; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:39:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:39:24 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chroot() vs jail() Message-ID: <20011123013924.C97770@mail.droso.net> References: <20011122114433.A21619@crb-web.com> <20011122121741.E29254@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011122121741.E29254@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:17:41PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 4.4-STABLE 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 On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:17:41PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:44:33AM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > > It appears that jail provides some added functionality over chroot. Can anyone > > explain the differences between jail/chroot and when you would choose one over > > the other? > > Try reading the manpages and the mailing list archives; it's described well. > The white paper is really good reading http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html -- Erwin Lansing -- http://droso.org I love deadlines. -- Douglas Adams I love the whooshing sound they make as the fly by. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message