From owner-freebsd-security Sun Nov 17 16:02:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA23279 for security-outgoing; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:02:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from assaris.sics.se (assaris.pdc.kth.se [130.237.221.57]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA23267 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:02:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from assar@localhost) by assaris.sics.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA17765; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 01:03:00 +0100 (MET) To: Digital Dreamer Cc: "az.com" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: grand alternatives to chroot, solution to the age-old root problem References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.68) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Assar Westerlund Date: 18 Nov 1996 01:02:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: Digital Dreamer's message of Sun, 17 Nov 1996 15:31:15 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <5l20dss21b.fsf@assaris.sics.se> Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.40/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Digital Dreamer writes: > On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, az.com wrote: [ about virtual machines ] > Sounds nice, but kind of impractical. There's no unice (AFAIK) whose > kernel could do this without essentially being rewritten. Besides, > there's still the possibility of kernel bugs that would let you break out > of your vm and get into that of others. Sounds like Fluke, but they have/will have recursive virtual machines. /assar