Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:56:36 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: jail() system call (was Re: prevent breaking a chroot() jail?) |
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* Shaya Potter (spotter@cs.columbia.edu) wrote: > Wow, this is what I need. Would there be any interest in having this > syscall in Linux, as I need to design something like this anyways for > the research we are doing. > > A first stab implementation would probably be as a module (as our > research is based on a being usable just as a loadable module, w/o any > direct kernel patch need, therefore until something is accepted into the > kernel, we would need it like this), but we'd prefer it, and it > definitely would be cleaner to have the jail tests integrated into the > syscall and not wrapped by the module.
You could implement this policy in a security module. http://lsm.immunix.org.
I don't believe you can do all of jail() with just capabilities, and as a module it can always be extended.
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