svn commit: r221665 - head/usr.sbin/jail

Benedict Reuschling bcr at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 8 14:57:01 UTC 2011


Author: bcr (doc committer)
Date: Sun May  8 14:57:01 2011
New Revision: 221665
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/221665

Log:
  Revert r221655:
  
  Various people voiced their concerns about these changes.
  Until this is resolved, we should use the old version.

Modified:
  head/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8

Modified: head/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8	Sun May  8 14:56:02 2011	(r221664)
+++ head/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8	Sun May  8 14:57:01 2011	(r221665)
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd May 8, 2011
+.Dd January 17, 2010
 .Dt JAIL 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ command script can be used:
 .Bd -literal
 D=/here/is/the/jail
 cd /usr/src
-mkdir -p -m 0700 $D
+mkdir -p $D
 make world DESTDIR=$D
 make distribution DESTDIR=$D
 mount -t devfs devfs $D/dev
@@ -448,10 +448,6 @@ in the per-jail devfs.
 A simple devfs ruleset for jails is available as ruleset #4 in
 .Pa /etc/defaults/devfs.rules .
 .Pp
-Non-superusers in the host system should not be able to access the 
-jail's files; otherwise an attacker with root access to the jail
-could obtain elevated privileges on the host.
-.Pp
 In many cases this example would put far more in the jail than needed.
 In the other extreme case a jail might contain only one file:
 the executable to be run in the jail.


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