jexec as user?

[Christos Chatzaras]

> On 19 Nov 2019, at 15:02, mike tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
> 
> On 11/19/2019 6:42 AM, Ronald Klop wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Is it possible to jexec into a jail as a regular user. Or to enable
>> that somewhere?
>> Or is the way to do such a thing to set up ssh in the jail?
>> 
> On 11.3 at least, does not the built in functionality of jexec do what
> you need ?
> 
> jexec [-l] [-u username | -U username] jail [command ...]
> 
> # jexec -U testuser 3 csh
> testuser at cacticonsole:/ % id
> uid=1005(testuser) gid=1005(testuser) groups=1005(testuser)
> testuser at cacticonsole:/ %
> 

I think he wants to use jexec as a normal user from the main OS.

If he wants to run jexec as root and login to jail as user then your command works.