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37.Dd July 8, 2009
38.Dt JAIL 8
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm jail
42.Nd "create or modify a system jail"
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Nm
45.Op Fl dhi
46.Op Fl J Ar jid_file
47.Op Fl l u Ar username | Fl U Ar username
48.Op Fl c | m
49.Op Ar parameter=value ...
50.Br
51.Nm
52.Op Fl hi
53.Op Fl n Ar jailname
54.Op Fl J Ar jid_file
55.Op Fl s Ar securelevel
56.Op Fl l u Ar username | Fl U Ar username
57.Op Ar path hostname [ip[,..]] command ...
58.Br
59.Nm
60.Op Fl r Ar jail
61.Sh DESCRIPTION
62The
63.Nm
64utility creates a new jail or modifies an existing jail, optionally
65imprisoning the current process (and future descendants) inside it.
66.Pp
67The options are as follows:
68.Bl -tag -width indent
69.It Fl d
70Allow making changes to a
71.Va
72dying jail.
73.It Fl h
74Resolve the
75.Va host.hostname
76parameter (or
77.Va hostname )
78and add all IP addresses returned by the resolver
79to the list of
80.Va ip
81addresses for this prison.
82This may affect default address selection for outgoing IPv4 connections
83of prisons.
84The address first returned by the resolver for each address family
85will be used as primary address.
86See the
87.Va ip4.addr
88and
89.Va ip6.addr
90parameters further down for details.
91.It Fl i
92Output the jail identifier of the newly created jail.
93.It Fl n Ar jailname
94Set the jail's name.
95This is deprecated and is equivalent to setting the
96.Va name
97parameter.
98.It Fl J Ar jid_file
99Write a
100.Ar jid_file
101file, containing jail identifier, path, hostname, IP and
102command used to start the jail.
103.It Fl l
104Run program in the clean environment.
105The environment is discarded except for
106.Ev HOME , SHELL , TERM
107and
108.Ev USER .
109.Ev HOME
110and
111.Ev SHELL
112are set to the target login's default values.
113.Ev USER
114is set to the target login.
115.Ev TERM
116is imported from the current environment.
117The environment variables from the login class capability database for the
118target login are also set.
119.It Fl s Ar securelevel
120Set the
121.Va kern.securelevel
122MIB entry to the specified value inside the newly created jail.
123This is deprecated and is equivalent to setting the
124.Va securelevel
125parameter.
126.It Fl u Ar username
127The user name from host environment as whom the
128.Ar command
129should run.
130.It Fl U Ar username
131The user name from jailed environment as whom the
132.Ar command
133should run.
134.It Fl c
135Create a new jail.
136The
137.Va jid
138and
139.Va name
140parameters (if specified) must not refer to an existing jail.
141.It Fl m
142Modify an existing jail.
143One of the
144.Va jid
145or
146.Va name
147parameters must exist and refer to an existing jail.
148.It Fl cm
149Create a jail if it does not exist, or modify a jail if it does exist.
150.It Fl r
151Remove the
152.Ar jail
153specified by jid or name.
154All jailed processes are killed, and all children of this jail are also
155removed.
156.El
157.Pp
158At least one of the
159.Fl c ,
160.Fl m
161or
162.Fl r
163options must be specified.
164.Pp
165.Ar Parameters
166are listed in
167.Dq name=value
168form, following the options.
169Some parameters are boolean, and do not have a value but are set by the
170name alone with or without a
171.Dq no
172prefix, e.g.
173.Va persist
174or
175.Va nopersist .
176Any parameters not set will be given default values, often based on the
177current environment.
178.Pp
179The pseudo-parameter
180.Va command
181specifies that the current process should enter the new (or modified) jail,
182and run the specified command.
183It must be the last parameter specified, because it includes not only
184the value following the
185.Sq =
186sign, but also passes the rest of the arguments to the command.
187.Pp
188Instead of supplying named
189.Ar parameters ,
190four fixed parameters may be supplied in order on the command line:
191.Ar path ,
192.Ar hostname ,
193.Ar ip ,
194and
195.Ar command .
196As the
197.Va jid
198and
199.Va name
200parameters aren't in this list, this mode will always create a new jail, and
201the
202.Fl c
203and
204.Fl m
205options don't apply (and must not exist).
206.Pp
207Jails have a set a core parameters, and modules can add their own jail
208parameters.
209The current set of available parameters can be retrieved via
210.Dq Nm sysctl Fl d Va security.jail.param .
211The core parameters are:
212.Bl -tag -width indent
213.It Va jid
214The jail identifier.
215This will be assigned automatically to a new jail (or can be explicitly
216set), and can be used to identify the jail for later modification, or
217for such commands as
218.Xr jls 8
219or
220.Xr jexec 8 .
221.It Va name
222The jail name.
223This is an arbitrary string that identifies a jail (except it may not
224contain a
225.Sq \&. ) .
226Like the
227.Va jid ,
228it can be passed to later
229.Nm
230commands, or to
231.Xr jls 8
232or
233.Xr jexec 8 .
234If no
235.Va name
236is supplied, a default is assumed that is the same as the
237.Va jid .
238.It Va path
239Directory which is to be the root of the prison.
240The
241.Va command
242(if any) is run from this directory, as are commands from
243.Xr jexec 8 .
244.It Va ip4.addr
245A comma-separated list of IPv4 addresses assigned to the prison.
246If this is set, the jail is restricted to using only these address.
247Any attempts to use other addresses fail, and attempts to use wildcard
248addresses silently use the jailed address instead.
249For IPv4 the first address given will be kept used as the source address
250in case source address selection on unbound sockets cannot find a better
251match.
252It is only possible to start multiple jails with the same IP address,
253if none of the jails has more than this single overlapping IP address
254assigned to itself.
255.Pp
256A list of zero elements (an empty string) will stop the jail from using IPv4
257entirely; setting the boolean parameter
258.Ar noip4
259will not restrict the jail at all.
260.It Va ip6.addr
261A list of IPv6 addresses assigned to the prison, the counterpart to
262.Ar ip4.addr
263above.
264.It Va host.hostname
265Hostname of the prison.
266Other similar parameters are
267.Va host.domainname ,
268.Va host.hostuuid
269and
270.Va host.hostid .
271Setting the boolean parameter
272.Va nohost
273will retain the system values of these settings.
274.It Va securelevel
275The value of the jail's
276.Va kern.securelevel
277sysctl.
278A jail never has a lower securelevel than the default system, but by
279setting this parameter it may have a higher one.
280If the system securelevel is changed, any jail securelevels will be at
281least as secure.
282.It Va children.max
283The number of child jails allowed to be created by this jail (or by
284other jails under this jail).
285This limit is zero by default, indicating the jail is not allowed to
286create child jails.
287See the
288.Va "Hierarchical Jails"
289section for more information.
290.It Va children.cur
291The number of descendents of this jail, including its own child jails
292and any jails created under them.
293.It Va enforce_statfs
294This determines which information processes in a jail are able to get
295about mount points.
296It affects the behaviour of the following syscalls:
297.Xr statfs 2 ,
298.Xr fstatfs 2 ,
299.Xr getfsstat 2
300and
301.Xr fhstatfs 2
302(as well as similar compatibility syscalls).
303When set to 0, all mount points are available without any restrictions.
304When set to 1, only mount points below the jail's chroot directory are
305visible.
306In addition to that, the path to the jail's chroot directory is removed
307from the front of their pathnames.
308When set to 2 (default), above syscalls can operate only on a mount-point
309where the jail's chroot directory is located.
310.It Va persist
311Setting this boolean parameter allows a jail to exist without any
312processes.
313Normally, a jail is destroyed as its last process exits.
314A new jail must have either the
315.Va persist
316parameter or
317.Va command
318pseudo-parameter set.
319.It Va cpuset.id
320The ID of the cpuset associated with this jail (read-only).
321.It Va dying
322This is true if the jail is in the process of shutting down (read-only).
323.It Va parent
324The
325.Va jid
326of the parent of this jail, or zero if this is a top-level jail
327(read-only).
328.It Va allow.*
329Some restrictions of the jail environment may be set on a per-jail
330basis.
331With the exception of
332.Va allow.set_hostname ,
333these boolean parameters are off by default.
334.Bl -tag -width indent
335.It Va allow.set_hostname
336The jail's hostname may be changed via
337.Xr hostname 1
338or
339.Xr sethostname 3 .
340.It Va allow.sysvipc
341A process within the jail has access to System V IPC primitives.
342In the current jail implementation, System V primitives share a single
343namespace across the host and jail environments, meaning that processes
344within a jail would be able to communicate with (and potentially interfere
345with) processes outside of the jail, and in other jails.
346.It Va allow.raw_sockets
347The prison root is allowed to create raw sockets.
348Setting this parameter allows utilities like
349.Xr ping 8
350and
351.Xr traceroute 8
352to operate inside the prison.
353If this is set, the source IP addresses are enforced to comply
354with the IP address bound to the jail, regardless of whether or not
355the
356.Dv IP_HDRINCL
357flag has been set on the socket.
358Since raw sockets can be used to configure and interact with various
359network subsystems, extra caution should be used where privileged access
360to jails is given out to untrusted parties.
361.It Va allow.chflags
362Normally, priveleged users inside a jail are treated as unprivileged by
363.Xr chflags 2 .
364When this parameter is set, such users are treated as privileged, and
365may manipulate system file flags subject to the usual constraints on
366.Va kern.securelevel .
367.It Va allow.mount
368privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount file
369system types marked as jail-friendly.
370The
371.Xr lsvfs 1
372command can be used to find file system types available for mount from
373within a jail.
374.It Va allow.quotas
375The prison root may administer quotas on the jail's filesystem(s).
376This includes filesystems that the jail may share with other jails or
377with non-jailed parts of the system.
378.It Va allow.socket_af
379Sockets within a jail are normally restricted to IPv4, IPv6, local
380(UNIX), and route.  This allows access to other protocol stacks that
381have not had jail functionality added to them.
382.El
383.El
384.Pp
385Jails are typically set up using one of two philosophies: either to
386constrain a specific application (possibly running with privilege), or
387to create a
388.Dq "virtual system image"
389running a variety of daemons and services.
390In both cases, a fairly complete file system install of
391.Fx
392is
393required, so as to provide the necessary command line tools, daemons,
394libraries, application configuration files, etc.
395However, for a virtual server configuration, a fair amount of
396additional work is required so as to configure the
397.Dq boot
398process.
399This manual page documents the configuration steps necessary to support
400either of these steps, although the configuration steps may be
401refined based on local requirements.
402.Sh EXAMPLES
403.Ss "Setting up a Jail Directory Tree"
404To set up a jail directory tree containing an entire
405.Fx
406distribution, the following
407.Xr sh 1
408command script can be used:
409.Bd -literal
410D=/here/is/the/jail
411cd /usr/src
412mkdir -p $D
413make world DESTDIR=$D
414make distribution DESTDIR=$D
415mount -t devfs devfs $D/dev
416.Ed
417.Pp
418NOTE: It is important that only appropriate device nodes in devfs be
419exposed to a jail; access to disk devices in the jail may permit processes
420in the jail to bypass the jail sandboxing by modifying files outside of
421the jail.
422See
423.Xr devfs 8
424for information on how to use devfs rules to limit access to entries
425in the per-jail devfs.
426A simple devfs ruleset for jails is available as ruleset #4 in
427.Pa /etc/defaults/devfs.rules .
428.Pp
429In many cases this example would put far more in the jail than needed.
430In the other extreme case a jail might contain only one file:
431the executable to be run in the jail.
432.Pp
433We recommend experimentation and caution that it is a lot easier to
434start with a
435.Dq fat
436jail and remove things until it stops working,
437than it is to start with a
438.Dq thin
439jail and add things until it works.
440.Ss "Setting Up a Jail"
441Do what was described in
442.Sx "Setting Up a Jail Directory Tree"
443to build the jail directory tree.
444For the sake of this example, we will
445assume you built it in
446.Pa /data/jail/192.0.2.100 ,
447named for the jailed IP address.
448Substitute below as needed with your
449own directory, IP address, and hostname.
450.Ss "Setting up the Host Environment"
451First, you will want to set up your real system's environment to be
452.Dq jail-friendly .
453For consistency, we will refer to the parent box as the
454.Dq "host environment" ,
455and to the jailed virtual machine as the
456.Dq "jail environment" .
457Since jail is implemented using IP aliases, one of the first things to do
458is to disable IP services on the host system that listen on all local
459IP addresses for a service.
460If a network service is present in the host environment that binds all
461available IP addresses rather than specific IP addresses, it may service
462requests sent to jail IP addresses if the jail did not bind the port.
463This means changing
464.Xr inetd 8
465to only listen on the
466appropriate IP address, and so forth.
467Add the following to
468.Pa /etc/rc.conf
469in the host environment:
470.Bd -literal -offset indent
471sendmail_enable="NO"
472inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.0.2.23"
473rpcbind_enable="NO"
474.Ed
475.Pp
476.Li 192.0.2.23
477is the native IP address for the host system, in this example.
478Daemons that run out of
479.Xr inetd 8
480can be easily set to use only the specified host IP address.
481Other daemons
482will need to be manually configured\(emfor some this is possible through
483the
484.Xr rc.conf 5
485flags entries; for others it is necessary to modify per-application
486configuration files, or to recompile the applications.
487The following frequently deployed services must have their individual
488configuration files modified to limit the application to listening
489to a specific IP address:
490.Pp
491To configure
492.Xr sshd 8 ,
493it is necessary to modify
494.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config .
495.Pp
496To configure
497.Xr sendmail 8 ,
498it is necessary to modify
499.Pa /etc/mail/sendmail.cf .
500.Pp
501For
502.Xr named 8 ,
503it is necessary to modify
504.Pa /etc/namedb/named.conf .
505.Pp
506In addition, a number of services must be recompiled in order to run
507them in the host environment.
508This includes most applications providing services using
509.Xr rpc 3 ,
510such as
511.Xr rpcbind 8 ,
512.Xr nfsd 8 ,
513and
514.Xr mountd 8 .
515In general, applications for which it is not possible to specify which
516IP address to bind should not be run in the host environment unless they
517should also service requests sent to jail IP addresses.
518Attempting to serve
519NFS from the host environment may also cause confusion, and cannot be
520easily reconfigured to use only specific IPs, as some NFS services are
521hosted directly from the kernel.
522Any third-party network software running
523in the host environment should also be checked and configured so that it
524does not bind all IP addresses, which would result in those services' also
525appearing to be offered by the jail environments.
526.Pp
527Once
528these daemons have been disabled or fixed in the host environment, it is
529best to reboot so that all daemons are in a known state, to reduce the
530potential for confusion later (such as finding that when you send mail
531to a jail, and its sendmail is down, the mail is delivered to the host,
532etc.).
533.Ss "Configuring the Jail"
534Start any jail for the first time without configuring the network
535interface so that you can clean it up a little and set up accounts.
536As
537with any machine (virtual or not) you will need to set a root password, time
538zone, etc.
539Some of these steps apply only if you intend to run a full virtual server
540inside the jail; others apply both for constraining a particular application
541or for running a virtual server.
542.Pp
543Start a shell in the jail:
544.Pp
545.Bd -literal -offset indent
546jail path=/data/jail/192.0.2.100 host.hostname=testhostname \\
547	ip4.addr=192.0.2.100 command=/bin/sh
548.Ed
549.Pp
550Assuming no errors, you will end up with a shell prompt within the jail.
551You can now run
552.Pa /usr/sbin/sysinstall
553and do the post-install configuration to set various configuration options,
554or perform these actions manually by editing
555.Pa /etc/rc.conf ,
556etc.
557.Pp
558.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
559.It
560Create an empty
561.Pa /etc/fstab
562to quell startup warnings about missing fstab (virtual server only)
563.It
564Disable the port mapper
565.Pa ( /etc/rc.conf :
566.Li rpcbind_enable="NO" )
567(virtual server only)
568.It
569Configure
570.Pa /etc/resolv.conf
571so that name resolution within the jail will work correctly
572.It
573Run
574.Xr newaliases 1
575to quell
576.Xr sendmail 8
577warnings.
578.It
579Disable interface configuration to quell startup warnings about
580.Xr ifconfig 8
581.Pq Li network_interfaces=""
582(virtual server only)
583.It
584Set a root password, probably different from the real host system
585.It
586Set the timezone
587.It
588Add accounts for users in the jail environment
589.It
590Install any packages the environment requires
591.El
592.Pp
593You may also want to perform any package-specific configuration (web servers,
594SSH servers, etc), patch up
595.Pa /etc/syslog.conf
596so it logs as you would like, etc.
597If you are not using a virtual server, you may wish to modify
598.Xr syslogd 8
599in the host environment to listen on the syslog socket in the jail
600environment; in this example, the syslog socket would be stored in
601.Pa /data/jail/192.0.2.100/var/run/log .
602.Pp
603Exit from the shell, and the jail will be shut down.
604.Ss "Starting the Jail"
605You are now ready to restart the jail and bring up the environment with
606all of its daemons and other programs.
607If you are running a single application in the jail, substitute the
608command used to start the application for
609.Pa /etc/rc
610in the examples below.
611To start a virtual server environment,
612.Pa /etc/rc
613is run to launch various daemons and services.
614To do this, first bring up the
615virtual host interface, and then start the jail's
616.Pa /etc/rc
617script from within the jail.
618.Bd -literal -offset indent
619ifconfig ed0 inet alias 192.0.2.100/32
620mount -t procfs proc /data/jail/192.0.2.100/proc
621jail path=/data/jail/192.0.2.100 host.hostname=testhostname \\
622	ip4.addr=192.0.2.100 command=/bin/sh /etc/rc
623.Ed
624.Pp
625A few warnings will be produced, because most
626.Xr sysctl 8
627configuration variables cannot be set from within the jail, as they are
628global across all jails and the host environment.
629However, it should all
630work properly.
631You should be able to see
632.Xr inetd 8 ,
633.Xr syslogd 8 ,
634and other processes running within the jail using
635.Xr ps 1 ,
636with the
637.Ql J
638flag appearing beside jailed processes.
639To see an active list of jails, use the
640.Xr jls 8
641utility.
642You should also be able to
643.Xr telnet 1
644to the hostname or IP address of the jailed environment, and log
645in using the accounts you created previously.
646.Pp
647It is possible to have jails started at boot time.
648Please refer to the
649.Dq jail_*
650variables in
651.Xr rc.conf 5
652for more information.
653The
654.Xr rc 8
655jail script provides a flexible system to start/stop jails:
656.Bd -literal
657/etc/rc.d/jail start
658/etc/rc.d/jail stop
659/etc/rc.d/jail start myjail
660/etc/rc.d/jail stop myjail
661.Ed
662.Ss "Managing the Jail"
663Normal machine shutdown commands, such as
664.Xr halt 8 ,
665.Xr reboot 8 ,
666and
667.Xr shutdown 8 ,
668cannot be used successfully within the jail.
669To kill all processes in a
670jail, you may log into the jail and, as root, use one of the following
671commands, depending on what you want to accomplish:
672.Pp
673.Bd -literal -offset indent
674kill -TERM -1
675kill -KILL -1
676.Ed
677.Pp
678This will send the
679.Dv SIGTERM
680or
681.Dv SIGKILL
682signals to all processes in the jail from within the jail.
683Depending on
684the intended use of the jail, you may also want to run
685.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown
686from within the jail.
687To kill processes from outside the jail, use the
688.Xr jexec 8
689utility in conjunction with the one of the
690.Xr kill 1
691commands above.
692You may also remove the jail with
693.Nm
694.Ar -r ,
695which will killall the jail's processes with
696.Dv SIGKILL .
697.Pp
698The
699.Pa /proc/ Ns Ar pid Ns Pa /status
700file contains, as its last field, the name of the jail in which the
701process runs, or
702.Dq Li -
703to indicate that the process is not running within a jail.
704The
705.Xr ps 1
706command also shows a
707.Ql J
708flag for processes in a jail.
709.Pp
710You can also list/kill processes based on their jail ID.
711To show processes and their jail ID, use the following command:
712.Pp
713.Dl "ps ax -o pid,jid,args"
714.Pp
715To show and then kill processes in jail number 3 use the following commands:
716.Bd -literal -offset indent
717pgrep -lfj 3
718pkill -j 3
719.Ed
720or:
721.Pp
722.Dl "killall -j 3"
723.Ss "Jails and File Systems"
724It is not possible to
725.Xr mount 8
726or
727.Xr umount 8
728any file system inside a jail unless the file system is marked
729jail-friendly and the jail's
730.Va allow.mount
731parameter is set.
732.Pp
733Multiple jails sharing the same file system can influence each other.
734For example a user in one jail can fill the file system also
735leaving no space for processes in the other jail.
736Trying to use
737.Xr quota 1
738to prevent this will not work either as the file system quotas
739are not aware of jails but only look at the user and group IDs.
740This means the same user ID in two jails share the same file
741system quota.
742One would need to use one file system per jail to make this work.
743.Ss "Sysctl MIB Entries"
744The read-only entry
745.Va security.jail.jailed
746can be used to determine if a process is running inside a jail (value
747is one) or not (value is zero).
748.Pp
749The variable
750.Va security.jail.max_af_ips
751determines how may address per address family a prison may have.
752The default is 255.
753.Pp
754Some MIB variables have per-jail settings.
755Changes to these variables by a jailed process do not effect the host
756environment, only the jail environment.
757These variables are
758.Va kern.securelevel ,
759.Va kern.hostname ,
760.Va kern.domainname ,
761.Va kern.hostid ,
762and
763.Va kern.hostuuid .
764.Ss "Hierarchical Jails"
765By setting a jail's
766.Va children.max
767parameter, processes within a jail may be able to create jails of their own.
768These child jails are kept in a hierarchy, with jails only able to see and/or
769modify the jails they created (or those jails' children).
770Each jail has a read-only
771.Va parent
772parameter, containing the
773.Va jid
774of the jail that created it; a
775.Va jid
776of 0 indicates the jail is a child of the current jail (or is a top-level
777jail if the current process isn't jailed).
778.Pp
779Jailed processes are not allowed to confer greater permissions than they
780themselves are given, e.g. if a jail is created with
781.Va allow.nomount ,
782it is not able to create a jail with
783.Va allow.mount
784set.
785Similarly, such restrictions as
786.Va ip4.addr
787and
788.Va securelevel
789may not be bypassed in child jails.
790.Pp
791A child jail may in turn create its own child jails if its own
792.Va children.max
793parameter is set (remember it is zero by default).
794These jails are visible to and can be modified by their parent and all
795ancestors.
796.Pp
797Jail names reflect this hierarchy, with a full name being an MIB-type string
798separated by dots.
799For example, if a base system process creates a jail
800.Dq foo ,
801and a process under that jail creates another jail
802.Dq bar ,
803then the second jail will be seen as
804.Dq foo.bar
805in the base system (though it is only seen as
806.Dq bar
807to any processes inside jail
808.Dq foo ) .
809Jids on the other hand exist in a single space, and each jail must have a
810unique jid.
811.Pp
812Like the names, a child jail's
813.Va path
814is relative to its creator's own
815.Va path .
816This is by virtue of the child jail being created in the chrooted
817environment of the first jail.
818.Sh SEE ALSO
819.Xr killall 1 ,
820.Xr lsvfs 1 ,
821.Xr newaliases 1 ,
822.Xr pgrep 1 ,
823.Xr pkill 1 ,
824.Xr ps 1 ,
825.Xr quota 1 ,
826.Xr chroot 2 ,
827.Xr jail_set 2 ,
828.Xr jail_attach 2 ,
829.Xr procfs 5 ,
830.Xr rc.conf 5 ,
831.Xr sysctl.conf 5 ,
832.Xr devfs 8 ,
833.Xr halt 8 ,
834.Xr inetd 8 ,
835.Xr jexec 8 ,
836.Xr jls 8 ,
837.Xr mount 8 ,
838.Xr named 8 ,
839.Xr reboot 8 ,
840.Xr rpcbind 8 ,
841.Xr sendmail 8 ,
842.Xr shutdown 8 ,
843.Xr sysctl 8 ,
844.Xr syslogd 8 ,
845.Xr umount 8
846.Sh HISTORY
847The
848.Nm
849utility appeared in
850.Fx 4.0 .
851Hierarchical/extensible jails were introduced in
852.Fx 8.0 .
853.Sh AUTHORS
854.An -nosplit
855The jail feature was written by
856.An Poul-Henning Kamp
857for R&D Associates
858.Pa http://www.rndassociates.com/
859who contributed it to
860.Fx .
861.Pp
862.An Robert Watson
863wrote the extended documentation, found a few bugs, added
864a few new features, and cleaned up the userland jail environment.
865.Pp
866.An Bjoern A. Zeeb
867added multi-IP jail support for IPv4 and IPv6 based on a patch
868originally done by
869.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek
870for IPv4.
871.Pp
872.An James Gritton
873added the extensible jail parameters and hierchical jails.
874.Sh BUGS
875Jail currently lacks the ability to allow access to
876specific jail information via
877.Xr ps 1
878as opposed to
879.Xr procfs 5 .
880Similarly, it might be a good idea to add an
881address alias flag such that daemons listening on all IPs
882.Pq Dv INADDR_ANY
883will not bind on that address, which would facilitate building a safe
884host environment such that host daemons do not impose on services offered
885from within jails.
886Currently, the simplest answer is to minimize services
887offered on the host, possibly limiting it to services offered from
888.Xr inetd 8
889which is easily configurable.
890