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.

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