Subject: Re: replace chroot() with a chroot overlay file system?
To: None <tech-security@NetBSD.org>
From: haad <haaaad@gmail.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 11/06/2005 12:38:08
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>>>>>>>"Brett" == Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au> writes:
>
>     >> So, chroot("/my/foo");
>     >>
>     >> becomes the same as something: mount -o ro,nosuid,noexec,nodev -t
>     >> union /something /my/foo chroot /my/foo
>     >>
>     >> (where /something might even be /)
>     >>
>
>     Brett> At which point I would be worried about a privilege
>     Brett> escalation leading to my password database being snatched for
>     Brett> offline cracking.  The nice thing about chroot is that you
>     Brett> don't have the encrypted passwords laying about.
>
>   right, there are different reasons for chroot().
>   Sometimes, you *do* want to be able to read stuff. Maybe even
> passwords. (think pop daemon...) Sometimes you do not.
>
My question is can we implement something like FreeBSD jail & Solaris10
zone??


I think is good thing to have in NetBSD.I know that i can use xen but in
xen there are two kernels with some overhead and with zones or jails is
nothing like that:)


Cheers



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