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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:15:59 -0600
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        peter@sysadmin-inc.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: named in a sand box.
Message-ID:  <20001215151559.D37756@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <000701c066db$e8969eb0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <002d01c066f4$1ba7a980$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> <000701c066db$e8969eb0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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On Friday, December 15, 2000, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> However, with the advent of chroot and the security gains that it provides,
> "sandbox" has been re-defined to mean b) in most cases.

   chroot is not meant as a security mechanism, it was only meant
to change the meaning of "/", originally for building a BSD
release (/usr/share/doc/papers/jail.* on -CURRENT).  Use the jail
mechanism if you need to securely make that sort of "sandbox".

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Programs: What software used to be, back when we knew how to write it.
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