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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:26:22 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Alexey Zakirov <frank@agava.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: jail & security
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108232220370.47618-100000@hellbell.domain>
In-Reply-To: <002901c12bd9$d7ecc300$45e03ac3@skif.net>

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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Igor Melnichuk wrote:

> > jail. You can use login classes in a jail just as you can outside it.  See
> > login.conf(5)
> > www.designcurve.net/articles/os/freebsd/doc/man/?section=&topic=login.conf
>
> 100% true and it works fine. But You can't restrict 'root' in case when You
> have to delegate this privileges to somebody (to make customization of
> apache for instance). Such user can always override 'login.conf' so this is

yep. you can do it for trusted users. but you can't do it for _untrusted_
users. There is a pretty simple patch that doesn't allow change the limits
inside a jail(2), but it also requires very experience to get it safe.

*** WBR, Alexey Zakirov (frank@agava.com)


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