Subject: Re: Implementing jail
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/15/2002 00:20:08
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:25:26AM +0200, Simas Mockevicius wrote:
>
> > FreeBSD have nice tool jail command, which locks particular directory
> > tree, creates virtual server on real server, does NetBSD have similar
> > tool?
>
> No, NetBSD does not support jails. While this may be a prominent case, it's
> believed to be a special case of a more general problem and it's not clear
> if "jail" is the right answer. Unfortunately there is nothing more general
> available in NetBSD either :-(

Note: we have chroot, which adds the fs-tree-limiting part. We just don't
do the virtual server part, as mentioned above.

Take care,

Bill