Linux in a jail

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Apr 24 05:37:02 PDT 2003


On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:44:51AM +0100, Rus Foster wrote:
> Hi,
>  Within a jailed environment is it possible to load the linux emulation?

No.  If you could load kernel modules then you could take over the
machine, defeating one of the main points of using jail.

> If I load it in the parent environemnt woudl that help?

Yes; there's only one kernel to load modules into.

Kris
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