1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I'm trying to establish a jail on a FBSD 6.1 system and have a couple of questions on bringing up the daemon. Under the jail man page there are two user flags that I am unclear on, -u username The user name from host environment as whom the command should run. -U... (1 Reply)

2. What is on Your Mind?

Enough of boring techie topics!! Vote on Paris Hilton and her jail time!! What do you think? (9 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I was reading an article on how it is very important to setup a chroot jail to run bind. I can follow what the article says but one thing I am unclear about is now on system boot the BIND process in the chroot jail will start since it the owner will no longer be root but some other user. Can... (1 Reply)

4. Solaris

Hi Gurus, I am creating a user for ftp only on Solaris 10. However while testing I can see user can reach to root directory. I followed following while creating the user 1 Created a shell in /usr/bin/ftponly as chmod a+x to ftponly 2 Placed the entry in /etc/shells ... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have a developer that needs ssh access to a server to get to a specific directory. I want to restrict them to that directory. I've tried to set their shell as rksh which does jail them but only if they are using ssh from another unix system. If they are using putty or winscp they can still... (2 Replies)

6. Cybersecurity

Hi all, I want to jail a process in his folder, so he can't have any link with a parent folder. Ex. If i'm a hacker, and I can upload my script & and I can start it, i'll could go to ../, /etc/passwd, etc.. So what I did is to chroot the process : I copied all libraries used by the... (1 Reply)

7. Cybersecurity

Hello people, I'm creating a web game control panel, where people can manage their gameserver on a php made control panel. But i have no idea how to create an jailed inviroment for the gameserver, I've looked at possebilites for chroot, but i don't want the gameserver has any binaries of linux... (1 Reply)