On Nov 16, 2007 6:57 AM, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:20:06 +0100 > Erik Cederstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You'll have to answer that yourself. How valuable is your data? What are > > you trying to protect? If you're worrying about getting cracked and used > > as a spam bot, jails are no more secure than a non-jail system. > > Maybe some qualification is needed here. > > If your mail jail gets broken into, then it will still be used as a spambot. > > But your host (the machine in which your jails run in) wouldn't have been > compromised, necessarily, by the fact that the jail got compromised. Having > root on a jail > (if that's what we are talking about by 'compromised' ) > shouldn't affect your host machine. Unless there is some other vulnerability > that can be used, of course.
Thats true indeed, however many people are saying that jails do not necessarily, make an environment more secure. I'm not really knowledable in that area, but they do add another layer to the proverbial onion. I use jails, but more for convenience then security, if i get a new (home) server box, I can just move some jails across with a simple tar and then scp, and have them work pretty much instantly. Cheers Federico _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
