Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

[Warner Losh]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jamie Bowden 
writes:
: What does jail do that chroot doesn't?  I've seen several discussions on
: jail on -hackers, but no explanation of why it was implemented, or how
: it's different from chroot.

It restricts root's ability to do things which would otherwise allow,
amoung other things, it to climb out of a chroot'd directory.  It also
doesn't allow root to create device entries, which helps to keep your
data safer.

Warner


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