inetd and freebsd service jail
Kurt Jaeger
lists at c0mplx.org
Thu Mar 27 12:59:18 PDT 2008
Hi!
> > I have a jail for pureftpd service,
> > it is possible that inetd from the main system launch FTP server
> > inside the jail?
>
> No, it's not possible.
I have to correct myself here.
> The reason:
>
> When your client connects to the IP of the jail,
> inetd.conf running on the main system can start some
>
> jexec <jail-id> /usr/libexec/ftpd ...
>
> But: The <jail-id> depends on the IP the client is connecting to,
> and inetd has no lookup-hook to find the <jail-id> from the IP adress.
>
> It might not be too difficult to add this feature to inetd,
> but right now, it's not available.
Sounds like writing some script which is started from inetd
and which wraps some jexec call might be possible.
--
pi at opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 12 years to go !
More information about the freebsd-stable
mailing list