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Date:      Sat, 03 Feb 2001 10:29:21 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, John Indra <john@naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DEVFS newbie... 
Message-ID:  <200102031729.f13HTL960996@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 2001 01:18:08 PST." <82167.981191888@winston.osd.bsdi.com> 
References:  <82167.981191888@winston.osd.bsdi.com>  

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In message <82167.981191888@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Jordan Hubbard writes:
: Couldn't you also do "mount -t devfs -o nonewdev devfs /home/jail/dev"
: and then cd /home/jail/dev ; rm $devices_i_dont_want_in_my_jails ?  It
: seems that "read my lips: no new devices" should be an option you can
: set from the very initial mount so that people can't also figure out
: how to get root, remove a /dev entry and replace it with one of their
: own.  Come to think of it, there should also be a -o staticdev option
: to disallow *any* changes after the initial mount.  That would make
: some of our more paranoid sysadmins happy.

My concern is that I usually know what devices I want (/dev/null,
/dev/zero, /dev/tty).  That makes it harder to delete all of them not
on the list.

Warner


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