On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:24:28 +0200 =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <d...@des.no> wrote: > I vote no as well, but for a different reason: there are many other > things the jailed root can do to the root directory, including flags, > extended attributes, etc. (some of which are fs-dependent), and it would > be difficult or impossible to identify all of them, not to mention those > that aren't yet possible but will be in the future. Fixing just one (or > two, or five) of them today might give users a false sense of security, > which is inexcusable when we can give a *true* sense of security by > telling them to "chmod 0700 $D/..".
Dumb question: the jail command can refuse to run unless the parent of a jail root is 0700. Would that work? No kernel hack required. _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
