On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > Log: > > > Allow the kern.osrelease and kern.osreldate sysctl values to be set in > > > a > > > jail's creation parameters. This allows the kernel version to be > > > reliably > > > spoofed within the jail whether examined directly with sysctl or > > > indirectly with the uname -r and -K options. > > > [..] > > > > > There is no sanity or range checking, other than disallowing an empty > > > release string or a zero release date, by design. The system > > > administrator is trusted to set sane values. Setting values that are > > > newer than the actual running kernel will likely cause compatibility > > > problems. > > > > > I would think that you could at set time ensure that only older > > releases were allowed.. > > I'm not sure what the rule would be with sub-sub-jails.. older than > > parent, or older than base system..? > > > > > > I am a really really strong believer in giving administrators complete > control of their systems. If they want to do "something stupid" because > it works for them, I'm not going to stop them.
Well, what about giving them a hinting warning in such case? -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: ma...@freebsd.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- ma...@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
