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Subject: Re: Rooting FreeBSD , Privilege Escalation using Jails
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> > A jail won't work for not-root users if the jail root directory is chmod 700 - although
> > there is obviously a 'chroot' running withing the jail, the jailed user still needs
> > to have read permission from the hosts / -- chmod 700 therefore locks all non-root
> > users out.
> >
>
> It's weird - I don't remember having such problem after setting jails'
> root directory permission to 700. I don't have the system anymore so I
> can't verify it just yet.

I just tried it again (Freebsd 8.2) and I am wrong.

Setting 700 on the jail root does indeed mess things up. But setting it on
the parent (e.g. /usr/jails), and things are fine.

Stupidly of me, that makes perfect sense. The non-privileged user needs
read access to the jails "/"

Sorry for the spam