I just broke out of a FreeBSD jail.. Known bug??

[Johan Ström]

On Dec 28, 2007, at 13:41 , Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:15:38PM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote:
>> Thats my home dir on core!.. That should very much not be visible
>> there! I have full access now (from the wrong jail!)
>>
>> Known bug or did I just stumble upon something pretty bad??
>
> You didn't really break out of it, the person who managed the machine
> did something he shouldn't have done: Moving the directories while
> the jail(s) were running. It should be mentioned in the BUGS section
> of the jail(8) command.
>

Yes, thats true.. Without "super-root" doing that the "breakout"  
would never happen. But still a bug, so yes I guess it should be  
mentioned in BUGS (and handbook too? not sure where this kind of  
"special features" are noted) unless its fixed.

--
Johan