One thing I would like to do as a hobby is start a classic multi-user unix system and giving out shell accounts to whoever wants one. Not a money maker, of course, but it would be fun.
My question: does anyone have any comments on using `jail` in a public environment like this - that is, instead of giving away individual shell accounts, you would give away individual "jails" - basically a whole seperate machine with its own IP and own root access, etc. ? I am not asking about the commercial viability - it's just a hobby system. But in terms of limiting resources (so no one user bogs down the whole system) and in terms of security (nobody can turn rogue and bring down / compromise the system) is this a viable option ? Or is jail best kept to environments where the users are in-house (trusted) ? Another way of asking this would be, was jail developed for, and best used for, creating a safe area for daemons like httpd, or was it developed with running many full-blown independent systems on a single machine in mind ? _any_ comments appreciated. --joesh _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
