Hello.
Plase forgive the long post and the amount of questions, but I'm new to
jails and I'd like to be sure of what I'm doing before deploying more
than a test one.
Right now I need to run a commercial Java app, which, ideally, I would
forbid to access files outside its directory.
This might be done by simple chrooting it, but I read a jail is a better
solution, so I started with ezjails.
First of all, I'm wondering whether it would be possible/useful to use
chroot even inside that jail. Any opinions?
Second question: from inside the jail I can access all services on
localhost (eg. telnet localhost pop3, where a pop3 server is running on
the host). Can this be avoided, e.g. with ipfw?
Ideally, since this jail will run only one deamon and it will be
accessed through Apache mod_proxy from the host, I'll just need inbound
access to its port and outbound access to smtp and web proxy on the host
system. No direct access from/to other hosts.
Is this possible?
Next... ezjail's author suggests I have a copy of the port tree just for
the jails and, furthermore, a repository for distfiles for every jail.
Since this would waste a lot of space, I already used a single distfile
repository, but I'm also wondering whether it would be a bad idea to use
the host's port tree. I know lot of people do this and, keeping it tidy
with portsclean -CD, I wonder if it really would be a security risk in
my case.
Finally (for now :): I usually install portaudit and receive every day a
report about vulnerabilities in the host system's installed ports. What
about jails? Should I install portaudit there too and let them flood me
with reports? Is there a way to let the host's portaudit check jails too?
I'm sure I'll have other questions in some days...
Thanks in advance for now to anyone who will answer.
bye
av.
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