In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon w
rites:
>    Hmm.  While tracking down a null mount issue I think I might have
>    come across a potentially serious problem with jail.  It seems to
>    me that it would be possible for someone inside a jailed environment
>    to 'steal' pty's, tty's, or the tty side of a pty that is being
>    used from within other jails or by processes outside the jail.  Has
>    this ever come up before?

There has always been code in kern/tty_pty.c which makes sure that the
master and slave have the same prison:

        } else if (pti->pt_prison != td->td_ucred->cr_prison) {
                return (EBUSY);


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