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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd February 25, 2015 29.Dt JAIL 8 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm jail 33.Nd "manage system jails" 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm 36.Op Fl dhilqv 37.Op Fl J Ar jid_file 38.Op Fl u Ar username 39.Op Fl U Ar username 40.Op Fl cmr 41.Ar param Ns = Ns Ar value ... 42.Op Cm command Ns = Ns Ar command ... 43.Nm 44.Op Fl dqv 45.Op Fl f Ar conf_file 46.Op Fl p Ar limit 47.Op Fl cmr 48.Op Ar jail 49.Nm 50.Op Fl qv 51.Op Fl f Ar conf_file 52.Op Fl rR 53.Op Cm * | Ar jail ... 54.Nm 55.Op Fl dhilqv 56.Op Fl J Ar jid_file 57.Op Fl u Ar username 58.Op Fl U Ar username 59.Op Fl n Ar jailname 60.Op Fl s Ar securelevel 61.Op Ar path hostname [ Ar ip Ns [ Ns Ar ,... Ns ]] Ar command ... 62.Sh DESCRIPTION 63The 64.Nm 65utility creates new jails, or modifies or removes existing jails. 66A jail 67.Pq or Dq prison 68is specified via parameters on the command line, or in the 69.Xr jail.conf 5 70file. 71.Pp 72At least one of the options 73.Fl c , 74.Fl m 75or 76.Fl r 77must be specified. 78These options are used alone or in combination to describe the operation to 79perform: 80.Bl -tag -width indent 81.It Fl c 82Create a new jail. 83The jail 84.Va jid 85and 86.Va name 87parameters (if specified on the command line) 88must not refer to an existing jail. 89.It Fl m 90Modify an existing jail. 91One of the 92.Va jid 93or 94.Va name 95parameters must exist and refer to an existing jail. 96Some parameters may not be changed on a running jail. 97.It Fl r 98Remove the 99.Ar jail 100specified by jid or name. 101All jailed processes are killed, and all jails that are 102children of this jail are also 103removed. 104.It Fl rc 105Restart an existing jail. 106The jail is first removed and then re-created, as if 107.Dq Nm Fl r 108and 109.Dq Nm Fl c 110were run in succession. 111.It Fl cm 112Create a jail if it does not exist, or modify the jail if it does exist. 113.It Fl mr 114Modify an existing jail. 115The jail may be restarted if necessary to modify parameters than could 116not otherwise be changed. 117.It Fl cmr 118Create a jail if it doesn't exist, or modify (and possibly restart) the 119jail if it does exist. 120.El 121.Pp 122Other available options are: 123.Bl -tag -width indent 124.It Fl d 125Allow making changes to a dying jail, equivalent to the 126.Va allow.dying 127parameter. 128.It Fl f Ar conf_file 129Use configuration file 130.Ar conf_file 131instead of the default 132.Pa /etc/jail.conf . 133.It Fl h 134Resolve the 135.Va host.hostname 136parameter (or 137.Va hostname ) 138and add all IP addresses returned by the resolver 139to the list of addresses for this jail. 140This is equivalent to the 141.Va ip_hostname 142parameter. 143.It Fl i 144Output (only) the jail identifier of the newly created jail(s). 145This implies the 146.Fl q 147option. 148.It Fl J Ar jid_file 149Write a 150.Ar jid_file 151file, containing the parameters used to start the jail. 152.It Fl l 153Run commands in a clean environment. 154This is deprecated and is equivalent to the exec.clean parameter. 155.It Fl n Ar jailname 156Set the jail's name. 157This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 158.Va name 159parameter. 160.It Fl p Ar limit 161Limit the number of commands from 162.Va exec.* 163that can run simultaneously. 164.It Fl q 165Suppress the message printed whenever a jail is created, modified or removed. 166Only error messages will be printed. 167.It Fl R 168A variation of the 169.Fl r 170option that removes an existing jail without using the configuration file. 171No removal-related parameters for this jail will be used \(em the jail will 172simply be removed. 173.It Fl s Ar securelevel 174Set the 175.Va kern.securelevel 176MIB entry to the specified value inside the newly created jail. 177This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 178.Va securelevel 179parameter. 180.It Fl u Ar username 181The user name from host environment as whom jailed commands should run. 182This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 183.Va exec.jail_user 184and 185.Va exec.system_jail_user 186parameters. 187.It Fl U Ar username 188The user name from the jailed environment as whom jailed commands should run. 189This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 190.Va exec.jail_user 191parameter. 192.It Fl v 193Print a message on every operation, such as running commands and 194mounting filesystems. 195.El 196.Pp 197If no arguments are given after the options, the operation (except 198remove) will be performed on all jails specified in the 199.Xr jail.conf 5 200file. 201A single argument of a jail name will operate only on the specified jail. 202The 203.Fl r 204and 205.Fl R 206options can also remove running jails that aren't in the 207.Xr jail.conf 5 208file, specified by name or jid. 209.Pp 210An argument of 211.Dq * 212is a wildcard that will operate on all jails, regardless of whether 213they appear in 214.Xr jail.conf 5 ; 215this is the surest way for 216.Fl r 217to remove all jails. 218If hierarchical jails exist, a partial-matching wildcard definition may 219be specified. 220For example, an argument of 221.Dq foo.* 222would apply to jails with names like 223.Dq foo.bar 224and 225.Dq foo.bar.baz . 226.Pp 227A jail may be specified with parameters directly on the command line. 228In this case, the 229.Xr jail.conf 5 230file will not be used. 231For backward compatibility, the command line may also have four fixed 232parameters, without names: 233.Ar path , 234.Ar hostname , 235.Ar ip , 236and 237.Ar command . 238This mode will always create a new jail, and the 239.Fl c 240and 241.Fl m 242options do not apply (and must not be present). 243.Ss Jail Parameters 244Parameters in the 245.Xr jail.conf 5 246file, or on the command line, are generally of the form 247.Dq name=value . 248Some parameters are boolean, and do not have a value but are set by the 249name alone with or without a 250.Dq no 251prefix, e.g. 252.Va persist 253or 254.Va nopersist . 255They can also be given the values 256.Dq true 257and 258.Dq false . 259Other parameters may have more than one value, specified as a 260comma-separated list or with 261.Dq += 262in the configuration file (see 263.Xr jail.conf 5 264for details). 265.Pp 266The 267.Nm 268utility recognizes two classes of parameters. 269There are the true jail 270parameters that are passed to the kernel when the jail is created, 271which can be seen with 272.Xr jls 8 , 273and can (usually) be changed with 274.Dq Nm Fl m . 275Then there are pseudo-parameters that are only used by 276.Nm 277itself. 278.Pp 279Jails have a set of core parameters, and kernel modules can add their own 280jail parameters. 281The current set of available parameters can be retrieved via 282.Dq Nm sysctl Fl d Va security.jail.param . 283Any parameters not set will be given default values, often based on the 284current environment. 285The core parameters are: 286.Bl -tag -width indent 287.It Va jid 288The jail identifier. 289This will be assigned automatically to a new jail (or can be explicitly 290set), and can be used to identify the jail for later modification, or 291for such commands as 292.Xr jls 8 293or 294.Xr jexec 8 . 295.It Va name 296The jail name. 297This is an arbitrary string that identifies a jail (except it may not 298contain a 299.Sq \&. ) . 300Like the 301.Va jid , 302it can be passed to later 303.Nm 304commands, or to 305.Xr jls 8 306or 307.Xr jexec 8 . 308If no 309.Va name 310is supplied, a default is assumed that is the same as the 311.Va jid . 312The 313.Va name 314parameter is implied by the 315.Xr jail.conf 5 316file format, and need not be explicitly set when using the configuration 317file. 318.It Va path 319The directory which is to be the root of the jail. 320Any commands run inside the jail, either by 321.Nm 322or from 323.Xr jexec 8 , 324are run from this directory. 325.It Va ip4.addr 326A list of IPv4 addresses assigned to the jail. 327If this is set, the jail is restricted to using only these addresses. 328Any attempts to use other addresses fail, and attempts to use wildcard 329addresses silently use the jailed address instead. 330For IPv4 the first address given will be used as the source address 331when source address selection on unbound sockets cannot find a better 332match. 333It is only possible to start multiple jails with the same IP address 334if none of the jails has more than this single overlapping IP address 335assigned to itself. 336.It Va ip4.saddrsel 337A boolean option to change the formerly mentioned behaviour and disable 338IPv4 source address selection for the jail in favour of the primary 339IPv4 address of the jail. 340Source address selection is enabled by default for all jails and the 341.Va ip4.nosaddrsel 342setting of a parent jail is not inherited for any child jails. 343.It Va ip4 344Control the availability of IPv4 addresses. 345Possible values are 346.Dq inherit 347to allow unrestricted access to all system addresses, 348.Dq new 349to restrict addresses via 350.Va ip4.addr , 351and 352.Dq disable 353to stop the jail from using IPv4 entirely. 354Setting the 355.Va ip4.addr 356parameter implies a value of 357.Dq new . 358.It Va ip6.addr , Va ip6.saddrsel , Va ip6 359A set of IPv6 options for the jail, the counterparts to 360.Va ip4.addr , 361.Va ip4.saddrsel 362and 363.Va ip4 364above. 365.It Va vnet 366Create the jail with its own virtual network stack, 367with its own network interfaces, addresses, routing table, etc. 368The kernel must have been compiled with the 369.Sy VIMAGE option 370for this to be available. 371Possible values are 372.Dq inherit 373to use the system network stack, possibly with restricted IP addresses, 374and 375.Dq new 376to create a new network stack. 377.It Va host.hostname 378The hostname of the jail. 379Other similar parameters are 380.Va host.domainname , 381.Va host.hostuuid 382and 383.Va host.hostid . 384.It Va host 385Set the origin of hostname and related information. 386Possible values are 387.Dq inherit 388to use the system information and 389.Dq new 390for the jail to use the information from the above fields. 391Setting any of the above fields implies a value of 392.Dq new . 393.It Va securelevel 394The value of the jail's 395.Va kern.securelevel 396sysctl. 397A jail never has a lower securelevel than its parent system, but by 398setting this parameter it may have a higher one. 399If the system securelevel is changed, any jail securelevels will be at 400least as secure. 401.It Va devfs_ruleset 402The number of the devfs ruleset that is enforced for mounting devfs in 403this jail. 404A value of zero (default) means no ruleset is enforced. 405Descendant jails inherit the parent jail's devfs ruleset enforcement. 406Mounting devfs inside a jail is possible only if the 407.Va allow.mount 408and 409.Va allow.mount.devfs 410permissions are effective and 411.Va enforce_statfs 412is set to a value lower than 2. 413Devfs rules and rulesets cannot be viewed or modified from inside a jail. 414.Pp 415NOTE: It is important that only appropriate device nodes in devfs be 416exposed to a jail; access to disk devices in the jail may permit processes 417in the jail to bypass the jail sandboxing by modifying files outside of 418the jail. 419See 420.Xr devfs 8 421for information on how to use devfs rules to limit access to entries 422in the per-jail devfs. 423A simple devfs ruleset for jails is available as ruleset #4 in 424.Pa /etc/defaults/devfs.rules . 425.It Va children.max 426The number of child jails allowed to be created by this jail (or by 427other jails under this jail). 428This limit is zero by default, indicating the jail is not allowed to 429create child jails. 430See the 431.Sx "Hierarchical Jails" 432section for more information. 433.It Va children.cur 434The number of descendants of this jail, including its own child jails 435and any jails created under them. 436.It Va enforce_statfs 437This determines what information processes in a jail are able to get 438about mount points. 439It affects the behaviour of the following syscalls: 440.Xr statfs 2 , 441.Xr fstatfs 2 , 442.Xr getfsstat 2 , 443and 444.Xr fhstatfs 2 445(as well as similar compatibility syscalls). 446When set to 0, all mount points are available without any restrictions. 447When set to 1, only mount points below the jail's chroot directory are 448visible. 449In addition to that, the path to the jail's chroot directory is removed 450from the front of their pathnames. 451When set to 2 (default), above syscalls can operate only on a mount-point 452where the jail's chroot directory is located. 453.It Va persist 454Setting this boolean parameter allows a jail to exist without any 455processes. 456Normally, a command is run as part of jail creation, and then the jail 457is destroyed as its last process exits. 458A new jail must have either the 459.Va persist 460parameter or 461.Va exec.start 462or 463.Va command 464pseudo-parameter set. 465.It Va cpuset.id 466The ID of the cpuset associated with this jail (read-only). 467.It Va dying 468This is true if the jail is in the process of shutting down (read-only). 469.It Va parent 470The 471.Va jid 472of the parent of this jail, or zero if this is a top-level jail 473(read-only). 474.It Va osrelease 475The string for the jail's 476.Va kern.osrelease 477sysctl and uname -r. 478.It Va osreldate 479The number for the jail's 480.Va kern.osreldate 481and uname -K. 482.It Va allow.* 483Some restrictions of the jail environment may be set on a per-jail 484basis. 485With the exception of 486.Va allow.set_hostname , 487these boolean parameters are off by default. 488.Bl -tag -width indent 489.It Va allow.set_hostname 490The jail's hostname may be changed via 491.Xr hostname 1 492or 493.Xr sethostname 3 . 494.It Va allow.sysvipc 495A process within the jail has access to System V IPC primitives. 496In the current jail implementation, System V primitives share a single 497namespace across the host and jail environments, meaning that processes 498within a jail would be able to communicate with (and potentially interfere 499with) processes outside of the jail, and in other jails. 500.It Va allow.raw_sockets 501The jail root is allowed to create raw sockets. 502Setting this parameter allows utilities like 503.Xr ping 8 504and 505.Xr traceroute 8 506to operate inside the jail. 507If this is set, the source IP addresses are enforced to comply 508with the IP address bound to the jail, regardless of whether or not 509the 510.Dv IP_HDRINCL 511flag has been set on the socket. 512Since raw sockets can be used to configure and interact with various 513network subsystems, extra caution should be used where privileged access 514to jails is given out to untrusted parties. 515.It Va allow.chflags 516Normally, privileged users inside a jail are treated as unprivileged by 517.Xr chflags 2 . 518When this parameter is set, such users are treated as privileged, and 519may manipulate system file flags subject to the usual constraints on 520.Va kern.securelevel . 521.It Va allow.mount 522privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount file 523system types marked as jail-friendly. 524The 525.Xr lsvfs 1 526command can be used to find file system types available for mount from 527within a jail. 528This permission is effective only if 529.Va enforce_statfs 530is set to a value lower than 2. 531.It Va allow.mount.devfs 532privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 533devfs file system. 534This permission is effective only together with 535.Va allow.mount 536and only when 537.Va enforce_statfs 538is set to a value lower than 2. 539The devfs ruleset should be restricted from the default by using the 540.Va devfs_ruleset 541option. 542.It Va allow.mount.fdescfs 543privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 544fdescfs file system. 545This permission is effective only together with 546.Va allow.mount 547and only when 548.Va enforce_statfs 549is set to a value lower than 2. 550.It Va allow.mount.nullfs 551privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 552nullfs file system. 553This permission is effective only together with 554.Va allow.mount 555and only when 556.Va enforce_statfs 557is set to a value lower than 2. 558.It Va allow.mount.procfs 559privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 560procfs file system. 561This permission is effective only together with 562.Va allow.mount 563and only when 564.Va enforce_statfs 565is set to a value lower than 2. 566.It Va allow.mount.tmpfs 567privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 568tmpfs file system. 569This permission is effective only together with 570.Va allow.mount 571and only when 572.Va enforce_statfs 573is set to a value lower than 2. 574.It Va allow.mount.zfs 575privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 576ZFS file system. 577This permission is effective only together with 578.Va allow.mount 579and only when 580.Va enforce_statfs 581is set to a value lower than 2. 582See 583.Xr zfs 8 584for information on how to configure the ZFS filesystem to operate from 585within a jail. 586.It Va allow.quotas 587The jail root may administer quotas on the jail's filesystem(s). 588This includes filesystems that the jail may share with other jails or 589with non-jailed parts of the system. 590.It Va allow.socket_af 591Sockets within a jail are normally restricted to IPv4, IPv6, local 592(UNIX), and route. This allows access to other protocol stacks that 593have not had jail functionality added to them. 594.El 595.El 596.Pp 597There are pseudo-parameters that are not passed to the kernel, but are 598used by 599.Nm 600to set up the jail environment, often by running specified commands 601when jails are created or removed. 602The 603.Va exec.* 604command parameters are 605.Xr sh 1 606command lines that are run in either the system or jail environment. 607They may be given multiple values, which run would the specified 608commands in sequence. 609All commands must succeed (return a zero exit status), or the jail will 610not be created or removed, as appropriate. 611.Pp 612The pseudo-parameters are: 613.Bl -tag -width indent 614.It Va exec.prestart 615Command(s) to run in the system environment before a jail is created. 616.It Va exec.start 617Command(s) to run in the jail environment when a jail is created. 618A typical command to run is 619.Dq sh /etc/rc . 620.It Va command 621A synonym for 622.Va exec.start 623for use when specifying a jail directly on the command line. 624Unlike other parameters whose value is a single string, 625.Va command 626uses the remainder of the 627.Nm 628command line as its own arguments. 629.It Va exec.poststart 630Command(s) to run in the system environment after a jail is created, 631and after any 632.Va exec.start 633commands have completed. 634.It Va exec.prestop 635Command(s) to run in the system environment before a jail is removed. 636.It Va exec.stop 637Command(s) to run in the jail environment before a jail is removed, 638and after any 639.Va exec.prestop 640commands have completed. 641A typical command to run is 642.Dq sh /etc/rc.shutdown . 643.It Va exec.poststop 644Command(s) to run in the system environment after a jail is removed. 645.It Va exec.clean 646Run commands in a clean environment. 647The environment is discarded except for 648.Ev HOME , SHELL , TERM 649and 650.Ev USER . 651.Ev HOME 652and 653.Ev SHELL 654are set to the target login's default values. 655.Ev USER 656is set to the target login. 657.Ev TERM 658is imported from the current environment. 659The environment variables from the login class capability database for the 660target login are also set. 661.It Va exec.jail_user 662The user to run commands as, when running in the jail environment. 663The default is to run the commands as the current user. 664.It Va exec.system_jail_user 665This boolean option looks for the 666.Va exec.jail_user 667in the system 668.Xr passwd 5 669file, instead of in the jail's file. 670.It Va exec.system_user 671The user to run commands as, when running in the system environment. 672The default is to run the commands as the current user. 673.It Va exec.timeout 674The maximum amount of time to wait for a command to complete, in 675seconds. 676If a command is still running after this timeout has passed, 677the jail will not be created or removed, as appropriate. 678.It Va exec.consolelog 679A file to direct command output (stdout and stderr) to. 680.It Va exec.fib 681The FIB (routing table) to set when running commands inside the jail. 682.It Va stop.timeout 683The maximum amount of time to wait for a jail's processes to exit 684after sending them a 685.Dv SIGTERM 686signal (which happens after the 687.Va exec.stop 688commands have completed). 689After this many seconds have passed, the jail will be removed, which 690will kill any remaining processes. 691If this is set to zero, no 692.Dv SIGTERM 693is sent and the jail is immediately removed. 694The default is 10 seconds. 695.It Va interface 696A network interface to add the jail's IP addresses 697.Va ( ip4.addr 698and 699.Va ip6.addr ) 700to. 701An alias for each address will be added to the interface before the 702jail is created, and will be removed from the interface after the 703jail is removed. 704.It Va ip4.addr 705In addition to the IP addresses that are passed to the kernel, an 706interface, netmask and additional paramters (as supported by 707.Xr ifconfig 8 Ns ) 708may also be specified, in the form 709.Dq Ar interface Ns | Ns Ar ip-address Ns / Ns Ar netmask param ... . 710If an interface is given before the IP address, an alias for the address 711will be added to that interface, as it is with the 712.Va interface 713parameter. 714If a netmask in either dotted-quad or CIDR form is given 715after an IP address, it will be used when adding the IP alias. 716If additional parameters are specified then they will also be used when 717adding the IP alias. 718.It Va ip6.addr 719In addition to the IP addresses that are passed to the kernel, 720an interface, prefix and additional parameters (as supported by 721.Xr ifconfig 8 Ns ) 722may also be specified, in the form 723.Dq Ar interface Ns | Ns Ar ip-address Ns / Ns Ar prefix param ... . 724.It Va vnet.interface 725A network interface to give to a vnet-enabled jail after is it created. 726The interface will automatically be released when the jail is removed. 727.It Va ip_hostname 728Resolve the 729.Va host.hostname 730parameter and add all IP addresses returned by the resolver 731to the list of addresses 732.Po Va ip4.addr 733or 734.Va ip6.addr Pc 735for this jail. 736This may affect default address selection for outgoing IPv4 connections 737from jails. 738The address first returned by the resolver for each address family 739will be used as the primary address. 740.It Va mount 741A filesystem to mount before creating the jail (and to unmount after 742removing it), given as a single 743.Xr fstab 5 744line. 745.It Va mount.fstab 746An 747.Xr fstab 5 748format file containing filesystems to mount before creating a jail. 749.It Va mount.devfs 750Mount a 751.Xr devfs 5 752filesystem on the chrooted 753.Pa /dev 754directory, and apply the ruleset in the 755.Va devfs_ruleset 756parameter (or a default of ruleset 4: devfsrules_jail) 757to restrict the devices visible inside the jail. 758.It Va mount.fdescfs 759Mount a 760.Xr fdescfs 5 761filesystem on the chrooted 762.Pa /dev/fd 763directory. 764.It Va mount.procfs 765Mount a 766.Xr procfs 5 767filesystem on the chrooted 768.Pa /proc 769directory. 770.It Va allow.dying 771Allow making changes to a 772.Va dying 773jail. 774.It Va depend 775Specify a jail (or jails) that this jail depends on. 776Any such jails must be fully created, up to the last 777.Va exec.poststart 778command, before any action will taken to create this jail. 779When jails are removed the opposite is true: 780this jail must be fully removed, up to the last 781.Va exec.poststop 782command, before the jail(s) it depends on are stopped. 783.El 784.Sh EXAMPLES 785Jails are typically set up using one of two philosophies: either to 786constrain a specific application (possibly running with privilege), or 787to create a 788.Dq "virtual system image" 789running a variety of daemons and services. 790In both cases, a fairly complete file system install of 791.Fx 792is 793required, so as to provide the necessary command line tools, daemons, 794libraries, application configuration files, etc. 795However, for a virtual server configuration, a fair amount of 796additional work is required so as to replace the 797.Dq boot 798process. 799This manual page documents the configuration steps necessary to support 800either of these steps, although the configuration steps may need to be 801refined based on local requirements. 802.Ss "Setting up a Jail Directory Tree" 803To set up a jail directory tree containing an entire 804.Fx 805distribution, the following 806.Xr sh 1 807command script can be used: 808.Bd -literal 809D=/here/is/the/jail 810cd /usr/src 811mkdir -p $D 812make world DESTDIR=$D 813make distribution DESTDIR=$D 814.Ed 815.Pp 816In many cases this example would put far more in the jail than needed. 817In the other extreme case a jail might contain only one file: 818the executable to be run in the jail. 819.Pp 820We recommend experimentation, and caution that it is a lot easier to 821start with a 822.Dq fat 823jail and remove things until it stops working, 824than it is to start with a 825.Dq thin 826jail and add things until it works. 827.Ss "Setting Up a Jail" 828Do what was described in 829.Sx "Setting Up a Jail Directory Tree" 830to build the jail directory tree. 831For the sake of this example, we will 832assume you built it in 833.Pa /data/jail/testjail , 834for a jail named 835.Dq testjail . 836Substitute below as needed with your 837own directory, IP address, and hostname. 838.Ss "Setting up the Host Environment" 839First, set up the real system's environment to be 840.Dq jail-friendly . 841For consistency, we will refer to the parent box as the 842.Dq "host environment" , 843and to the jailed virtual machine as the 844.Dq "jail environment" . 845Since jails are implemented using IP aliases, one of the first things to do 846is to disable IP services on the host system that listen on all local 847IP addresses for a service. 848If a network service is present in the host environment that binds all 849available IP addresses rather than specific IP addresses, it may service 850requests sent to jail IP addresses if the jail did not bind the port. 851This means changing 852.Xr inetd 8 853to only listen on the 854appropriate IP address, and so forth. 855Add the following to 856.Pa /etc/rc.conf 857in the host environment: 858.Bd -literal -offset indent 859sendmail_enable="NO" 860inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.0.2.23" 861rpcbind_enable="NO" 862.Ed 863.Pp 864.Li 192.0.2.23 865is the native IP address for the host system, in this example. 866Daemons that run out of 867.Xr inetd 8 868can be easily configured to use only the specified host IP address. 869Other daemons 870will need to be manually configured \(em for some this is possible through 871.Xr rc.conf 5 872flags entries; for others it is necessary to modify per-application 873configuration files, or to recompile the application. 874The following frequently deployed services must have their individual 875configuration files modified to limit the application to listening 876to a specific IP address: 877.Pp 878To configure 879.Xr sshd 8 , 880it is necessary to modify 881.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config . 882.Pp 883To configure 884.Xr sendmail 8 , 885it is necessary to modify 886.Pa /etc/mail/sendmail.cf . 887.Pp 888For 889.Xr named 8 , 890it is necessary to modify 891.Pa /etc/namedb/named.conf . 892.Pp 893In addition, a number of services must be recompiled in order to run 894them in the host environment. 895This includes most applications providing services using 896.Xr rpc 3 , 897such as 898.Xr rpcbind 8 , 899.Xr nfsd 8 , 900and 901.Xr mountd 8 . 902In general, applications for which it is not possible to specify which 903IP address to bind should not be run in the host environment unless they 904should also service requests sent to jail IP addresses. 905Attempting to serve 906NFS from the host environment may also cause confusion, and cannot be 907easily reconfigured to use only specific IPs, as some NFS services are 908hosted directly from the kernel. 909Any third-party network software running 910in the host environment should also be checked and configured so that it 911does not bind all IP addresses, which would result in those services also 912appearing to be offered by the jail environments. 913.Pp 914Once 915these daemons have been disabled or fixed in the host environment, it is 916best to reboot so that all daemons are in a known state, to reduce the 917potential for confusion later (such as finding that when you send mail 918to a jail, and its sendmail is down, the mail is delivered to the host, 919etc.). 920.Ss "Configuring the Jail" 921Start any jail for the first time without configuring the network 922interface so that you can clean it up a little and set up accounts. 923As 924with any machine (virtual or not), you will need to set a root password, time 925zone, etc. 926Some of these steps apply only if you intend to run a full virtual server 927inside the jail; others apply both for constraining a particular application 928or for running a virtual server. 929.Pp 930Start a shell in the jail: 931.Bd -literal -offset indent 932jail -c path=/data/jail/testjail mount.devfs \\ 933 host.hostname=testhostname ip4.addr=192.0.2.100 \\ 934 command=/bin/sh 935.Ed 936.Pp 937Assuming no errors, you will end up with a shell prompt within the jail. 938You can now run 939.Pa /usr/sbin/sysinstall 940and do the post-install configuration to set various configuration options, 941or perform these actions manually by editing 942.Pa /etc/rc.conf , 943etc. 944.Pp 945.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact 946.It 947Configure 948.Pa /etc/resolv.conf 949so that name resolution within the jail will work correctly. 950.It 951Run 952.Xr newaliases 1 953to quell 954.Xr sendmail 8 955warnings. 956.It 957Set a root password, probably different from the real host system. 958.It 959Set the timezone. 960.It 961Add accounts for users in the jail environment. 962.It 963Install any packages the environment requires. 964.El 965.Pp 966You may also want to perform any package-specific configuration (web servers, 967SSH servers, etc), patch up 968.Pa /etc/syslog.conf 969so it logs as you would like, etc. 970If you are not using a virtual server, you may wish to modify 971.Xr syslogd 8 972in the host environment to listen on the syslog socket in the jail 973environment; in this example, the syslog socket would be stored in 974.Pa /data/jail/testjail/var/run/log . 975.Pp 976Exit from the shell, and the jail will be shut down. 977.Ss "Starting the Jail" 978You are now ready to restart the jail and bring up the environment with 979all of its daemons and other programs. 980Create an entry for the jail in 981.Pa /etc/jail.conf : 982.Bd -literal -offset indent 983testjail { 984 path = /tmp/jail/testjail; 985 mount.devfs; 986 host.hostname = testhostname; 987 ip4.addr = 192.0.2.100; 988 interface = ed0; 989 exec.start = "/bin/sh /etc/rc"; 990 exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown"; 991} 992.Ed 993.Pp 994To start a virtual server environment, 995.Pa /etc/rc 996is run to launch various daemons and services, and 997.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown 998is run to shut them down when the jail is removed. 999If you are running a single application in the jail, 1000substitute the command used to start the application for 1001.Dq /bin/sh /etc/rc ; 1002there may be some script available to cleanly shut down the application, 1003or it may be sufficient to go without a stop command, and have 1004.Nm 1005send 1006.Dv SIGTERM 1007to the application. 1008.Pp 1009Start the jail by running: 1010.Bd -literal -offset indent 1011jail -c testjail 1012.Ed 1013.Pp 1014A few warnings may be produced; however, it should all work properly. 1015You should be able to see 1016.Xr inetd 8 , 1017.Xr syslogd 8 , 1018and other processes running within the jail using 1019.Xr ps 1 , 1020with the 1021.Ql J 1022flag appearing beside jailed processes. 1023To see an active list of jails, use 1024.Xr jls 8 . 1025If 1026.Xr sshd 8 1027is enabled in the jail environment, you should be able to 1028.Xr ssh 1 1029to the hostname or IP address of the jailed environment, and log 1030in using the accounts you created previously. 1031.Pp 1032It is possible to have jails started at boot time. 1033Please refer to the 1034.Dq jail_* 1035variables in 1036.Xr rc.conf 5 1037for more information. 1038.Ss "Managing the Jail" 1039Normal machine shutdown commands, such as 1040.Xr halt 8 , 1041.Xr reboot 8 , 1042and 1043.Xr shutdown 8 , 1044cannot be used successfully within the jail. 1045To kill all processes from within a jail, you may use one of the 1046following commands, depending on what you want to accomplish: 1047.Bd -literal -offset indent 1048kill -TERM -1 1049kill -KILL -1 1050.Ed 1051.Pp 1052This will send the 1053.Dv SIGTERM 1054or 1055.Dv SIGKILL 1056signals to all processes in the jail \(em be careful not to run this from 1057the host environment! 1058Once all of the jail's processes have died, unless the jail was created 1059with the 1060.Va persist 1061parameter, the jail will be removed. 1062Depending on 1063the intended use of the jail, you may also want to run 1064.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown 1065from within the jail. 1066.Pp 1067To shut down the jail from the outside, simply remove it with 1068.Nm 1069.Ar -r , 1070which will run any commands specified by 1071.Va exec.stop , 1072and then send 1073.Dv SIGTERM 1074and eventually 1075.Dv SIGKILL 1076to any remaining jailed processes. 1077.Pp 1078The 1079.Pa /proc/ Ns Ar pid Ns Pa /status 1080file contains, as its last field, the name of the jail in which the 1081process runs, or 1082.Dq Li - 1083to indicate that the process is not running within a jail. 1084The 1085.Xr ps 1 1086command also shows a 1087.Ql J 1088flag for processes in a jail. 1089.Pp 1090You can also list/kill processes based on their jail ID. 1091To show processes and their jail ID, use the following command: 1092.Pp 1093.Dl "ps ax -o pid,jid,args" 1094.Pp 1095To show and then kill processes in jail number 3 use the following commands: 1096.Bd -literal -offset indent 1097pgrep -lfj 3 1098pkill -j 3 1099.Ed 1100or: 1101.Pp 1102.Dl "killall -j 3" 1103.Ss "Jails and File Systems" 1104It is not possible to 1105.Xr mount 8 1106or 1107.Xr umount 8 1108any file system inside a jail unless the file system is marked 1109jail-friendly, the jail's 1110.Va allow.mount 1111parameter is set, and the jail's 1112.Va enforce_statfs 1113parameter is lower than 2. 1114.Pp 1115Multiple jails sharing the same file system can influence each other. 1116For example, a user in one jail can fill the file system, 1117leaving no space for processes in the other jail. 1118Trying to use 1119.Xr quota 1 1120to prevent this will not work either, as the file system quotas 1121are not aware of jails but only look at the user and group IDs. 1122This means the same user ID in two jails share a single file 1123system quota. 1124One would need to use one file system per jail to make this work. 1125.Ss "Sysctl MIB Entries" 1126The read-only entry 1127.Va security.jail.jailed 1128can be used to determine if a process is running inside a jail (value 1129is one) or not (value is zero). 1130.Pp 1131The variable 1132.Va security.jail.max_af_ips 1133determines how may address per address family a jail may have. 1134The default is 255. 1135.Pp 1136Some MIB variables have per-jail settings. 1137Changes to these variables by a jailed process do not affect the host 1138environment, only the jail environment. 1139These variables are 1140.Va kern.securelevel , 1141.Va kern.hostname , 1142.Va kern.domainname , 1143.Va kern.hostid , 1144and 1145.Va kern.hostuuid . 1146.Ss "Hierarchical Jails" 1147By setting a jail's 1148.Va children.max 1149parameter, processes within a jail may be able to create jails of their own. 1150These child jails are kept in a hierarchy, with jails only able to see and/or 1151modify the jails they created (or those jails' children). 1152Each jail has a read-only 1153.Va parent 1154parameter, containing the 1155.Va jid 1156of the jail that created it; a 1157.Va jid 1158of 0 indicates the jail is a child of the current jail (or is a top-level 1159jail if the current process isn't jailed). 1160.Pp 1161Jailed processes are not allowed to confer greater permissions than they 1162themselves are given, e.g., if a jail is created with 1163.Va allow.nomount , 1164it is not able to create a jail with 1165.Va allow.mount 1166set. 1167Similarly, such restrictions as 1168.Va ip4.addr 1169and 1170.Va securelevel 1171may not be bypassed in child jails. 1172.Pp 1173A child jail may in turn create its own child jails if its own 1174.Va children.max 1175parameter is set (remember it is zero by default). 1176These jails are visible to and can be modified by their parent and all 1177ancestors. 1178.Pp 1179Jail names reflect this hierarchy, with a full name being an MIB-type string 1180separated by dots. 1181For example, if a base system process creates a jail 1182.Dq foo , 1183and a process under that jail creates another jail 1184.Dq bar , 1185then the second jail will be seen as 1186.Dq foo.bar 1187in the base system (though it is only seen as 1188.Dq bar 1189to any processes inside jail 1190.Dq foo ) . 1191Jids on the other hand exist in a single space, and each jail must have a 1192unique jid. 1193.Pp 1194Like the names, a child jail's 1195.Va path 1196appears relative to its creator's own 1197.Va path . 1198This is by virtue of the child jail being created in the chrooted 1199environment of the first jail. 1200.Sh SEE ALSO 1201.Xr killall 1 , 1202.Xr lsvfs 1 , 1203.Xr newaliases 1 , 1204.Xr pgrep 1 , 1205.Xr pkill 1 , 1206.Xr ps 1 , 1207.Xr quota 1 , 1208.Xr jail_set 2 , 1209.Xr devfs 5 , 1210.Xr fdescfs 5 , 1211.Xr jail.conf 5 , 1212.Xr procfs 5 , 1213.Xr rc.conf 5 , 1214.Xr sysctl.conf 5 , 1215.Xr chroot 8 , 1216.Xr devfs 8 , 1217.Xr halt 8 , 1218.Xr ifconfig 8 , 1219.Xr inetd 8 , 1220.Xr jexec 8 , 1221.Xr jls 8 , 1222.Xr mount 8 , 1223.Xr named 8 , 1224.Xr procfs 5 , 1225.Xr reboot 8 , 1226.Xr rpcbind 8 , 1227.Xr sendmail 8 , 1228.Xr shutdown 8 , 1229.Xr sysctl 8 , 1230.Xr syslogd 8 , 1231.Xr umount 8 1232.Sh HISTORY 1233The 1234.Nm 1235utility appeared in 1236.Fx 4.0 . 1237Hierarchical/extensible jails were introduced in 1238.Fx 8.0 . 1239The configuration file was introduced in 1240.Fx 9.1 . 1241.Sh AUTHORS 1242.An -nosplit 1243The jail feature was written by 1244.An Poul-Henning Kamp 1245for R&D Associates 1246.Pa http://www.rndassociates.com/ 1247who contributed it to 1248.Fx . 1249.Pp 1250.An Robert Watson 1251wrote the extended documentation, found a few bugs, added 1252a few new features, and cleaned up the userland jail environment. 1253.Pp 1254.An Bjoern A. Zeeb 1255added multi-IP jail support for IPv4 and IPv6 based on a patch 1256originally done by 1257.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek 1258for IPv4. 1259.Pp 1260.An James Gritton 1261added the extensible jail parameters, hierarchical jails, 1262and the configuration file. 1263.Sh BUGS 1264It might be a good idea to add an 1265address alias flag such that daemons listening on all IPs 1266.Pq Dv INADDR_ANY 1267will not bind on that address, which would facilitate building a safe 1268host environment such that host daemons do not impose on services offered 1269from within jails. 1270Currently, the simplest answer is to minimize services 1271offered on the host, possibly limiting it to services offered from 1272.Xr inetd 8 1273which is easily configurable. 1274.Sh NOTES 1275Great care should be taken when managing directories visible within the jail. 1276For example, if a jailed process has its current working directory set to a 1277directory that is moved out of the jail's chroot, then the process may gain 1278access to the file space outside of the jail. 1279It is recommended that directories always be copied, rather than moved, out 1280of a jail. 1281.Pp 1282In addition, there are several ways in which an unprivileged user 1283outside the jail can cooperate with a privileged user inside the jail 1284and thereby obtain elevated privileges in the host environment. 1285Most of these attacks can be mitigated by ensuring that the jail root 1286is not accessible to unprivileged users in the host environment. 1287Regardless, as a general rule, untrusted users with privileged access 1288to a jail should not be given access to the host environment. 1289