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Poul-Henning Kamp 33.\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 34.\" 35.\" $FreeBSD$ 36.\" 37.Dd January 17, 2010 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.Nm 51.Op Fl hi 52.Op Fl n Ar jailname 53.Op Fl J Ar jid_file 54.Op Fl s Ar securelevel 55.Op Fl l u Ar username | Fl U Ar username 56.Op Ar path hostname [ip[,..]] command ... 57.Nm 58.Op Fl r Ar jail 59.Sh DESCRIPTION 60The 61.Nm 62utility creates a new jail or modifies an existing jail, optionally 63imprisoning the current process (and future descendants) inside it. 64.Pp 65The options are as follows: 66.Bl -tag -width indent 67.It Fl d 68Allow making changes to a dying jail. 69.It Fl h 70Resolve the 71.Va host.hostname 72parameter (or 73.Va hostname ) 74and add all IP addresses returned by the resolver 75to the list of 76.Va ip 77addresses for this prison. 78This may affect default address selection for outgoing IPv4 connections 79of prisons. 80The address first returned by the resolver for each address family 81will be used as primary address. 82See the 83.Va ip4.addr 84and 85.Va ip6.addr 86parameters further down for details. 87.It Fl i 88Output the jail identifier of the newly created jail. 89.It Fl n Ar jailname 90Set the jail's name. 91This is deprecated and is equivalent to setting the 92.Va name 93parameter. 94.It Fl J Ar jid_file 95Write a 96.Ar jid_file 97file, containing jail identifier, path, hostname, IP and 98command used to start the jail. 99.It Fl l 100Run program in the clean environment. 101The environment is discarded except for 102.Ev HOME , SHELL , TERM 103and 104.Ev USER . 105.Ev HOME 106and 107.Ev SHELL 108are set to the target login's default values. 109.Ev USER 110is set to the target login. 111.Ev TERM 112is imported from the current environment. 113The environment variables from the login class capability database for the 114target login are also set. 115.It Fl s Ar securelevel 116Set the 117.Va kern.securelevel 118MIB entry to the specified value inside the newly created jail. 119This is deprecated and is equivalent to setting the 120.Va securelevel 121parameter. 122.It Fl u Ar username 123The user name from host environment as whom the 124.Ar command 125should run. 126.It Fl U Ar username 127The user name from jailed environment as whom the 128.Ar command 129should run. 130.It Fl c 131Create a new jail. 132The 133.Va jid 134and 135.Va name 136parameters (if specified) must not refer to an existing jail. 137.It Fl m 138Modify an existing jail. 139One of the 140.Va jid 141or 142.Va name 143parameters must exist and refer to an existing jail. 144.It Fl cm 145Create a jail if it does not exist, or modify a jail if it does exist. 146.It Fl r 147Remove the 148.Ar jail 149specified by jid or name. 150All jailed processes are killed, and all children of this jail are also 151removed. 152.El 153.Pp 154At least one of the 155.Fl c , 156.Fl m 157or 158.Fl r 159options must be specified. 160.Pp 161.Ar Parameters 162are listed in 163.Dq name=value 164form, following the options. 165Some parameters are boolean, and do not have a value but are set by the 166name alone with or without a 167.Dq no 168prefix, e.g. 169.Va persist 170or 171.Va nopersist . 172Any parameters not set will be given default values, often based on the 173current environment. 174.Pp 175The pseudo-parameter 176.Va command 177specifies that the current process should enter the new (or modified) jail, 178and run the specified command. 179It must be the last parameter specified, because it includes not only 180the value following the 181.Sq = 182sign, but also passes the rest of the arguments to the command. 183.Pp 184Instead of supplying named 185.Ar parameters , 186four fixed parameters may be supplied in order on the command line: 187.Ar path , 188.Ar hostname , 189.Ar ip , 190and 191.Ar command . 192As the 193.Va jid 194and 195.Va name 196parameters aren't in this list, this mode will always create a new jail, and 197the 198.Fl c 199and 200.Fl m 201options don't apply (and must not exist). 202.Pp 203Jails have a set a core parameters, and modules can add their own jail 204parameters. 205The current set of available parameters can be retrieved via 206.Dq Nm sysctl Fl d Va security.jail.param . 207The core parameters are: 208.Bl -tag -width indent 209.It Va jid 210The jail identifier. 211This will be assigned automatically to a new jail (or can be explicitly 212set), and can be used to identify the jail for later modification, or 213for such commands as 214.Xr jls 8 215or 216.Xr jexec 8 . 217.It Va name 218The jail name. 219This is an arbitrary string that identifies a jail (except it may not 220contain a 221.Sq \&. ) . 222Like the 223.Va jid , 224it can be passed to later 225.Nm 226commands, or to 227.Xr jls 8 228or 229.Xr jexec 8 . 230If no 231.Va name 232is supplied, a default is assumed that is the same as the 233.Va jid . 234.It Va path 235Directory which is to be the root of the prison. 236The 237.Va command 238(if any) is run from this directory, as are commands from 239.Xr jexec 8 . 240.It Va ip4.addr 241A comma-separated list of IPv4 addresses assigned to the prison. 242If this is set, the jail is restricted to using only these addresses. 243Any attempts to use other addresses fail, and attempts to use wildcard 244addresses silently use the jailed address instead. 245For IPv4 the first address given will be kept used as the source address 246in case source address selection on unbound sockets cannot find a better 247match. 248It is only possible to start multiple jails with the same IP address, 249if none of the jails has more than this single overlapping IP address 250assigned to itself. 251.It Va ip4.saddrsel 252A boolean option to change the formerly mentioned behaviour and disable 253IPv4 source address selection for the prison in favour of the primary 254IPv4 address of the jail. 255Source address selection is enabled by default for all jails and a 256.Va ip4.nosaddrsel 257setting of a parent jail is not inherited for any child jails. 258.It Va ip4 259Control the availability of IPv4 addresses. 260Possible values are 261.Dq inherit 262to allow unrestricted access to all system addresses, 263.Dq new 264to restrict addresses via 265.Va ip4.addr 266above, and 267.Dq disable 268to stop the jail from using IPv4 entirely. 269Setting the 270.Va ip4.addr 271parameter implies a value of 272.Dq new . 273.It Va ip6.addr , Va ip6.saddrsel , Va ip6 274A set of IPv6 options for the prison, the counterparts to 275.Va ip4.addr , 276.Va ip4.saddrsel 277and 278.Va ip4 279above. 280.It Va host.hostname 281Hostname of the prison. 282Other similar parameters are 283.Va host.domainname , 284.Va host.hostuuid 285and 286.Va host.hostid . 287.It Va host 288Set the origin of hostname and related information. 289Possible values are 290.Dq inherit 291to use the system information and 292.Dq new 293for the jail to use the information from the above fields. 294Setting any of the above fields implies a value of 295.Dq new . 296.It Va securelevel 297The value of the jail's 298.Va kern.securelevel 299sysctl. 300A jail never has a lower securelevel than the default system, but by 301setting this parameter it may have a higher one. 302If the system securelevel is changed, any jail securelevels will be at 303least as secure. 304.It Va children.max 305The number of child jails allowed to be created by this jail (or by 306other jails under this jail). 307This limit is zero by default, indicating the jail is not allowed to 308create child jails. 309See the 310.Va "Hierarchical Jails" 311section for more information. 312.It Va children.cur 313The number of descendents of this jail, including its own child jails 314and any jails created under them. 315.It Va enforce_statfs 316This determines which information processes in a jail are able to get 317about mount points. 318It affects the behaviour of the following syscalls: 319.Xr statfs 2 , 320.Xr fstatfs 2 , 321.Xr getfsstat 2 322and 323.Xr fhstatfs 2 324(as well as similar compatibility syscalls). 325When set to 0, all mount points are available without any restrictions. 326When set to 1, only mount points below the jail's chroot directory are 327visible. 328In addition to that, the path to the jail's chroot directory is removed 329from the front of their pathnames. 330When set to 2 (default), above syscalls can operate only on a mount-point 331where the jail's chroot directory is located. 332.It Va persist 333Setting this boolean parameter allows a jail to exist without any 334processes. 335Normally, a jail is destroyed as its last process exits. 336A new jail must have either the 337.Va persist 338parameter or 339.Va command 340pseudo-parameter set. 341.It Va cpuset.id 342The ID of the cpuset associated with this jail (read-only). 343.It Va dying 344This is true if the jail is in the process of shutting down (read-only). 345.It Va parent 346The 347.Va jid 348of the parent of this jail, or zero if this is a top-level jail 349(read-only). 350.It Va allow.* 351Some restrictions of the jail environment may be set on a per-jail 352basis. 353With the exception of 354.Va allow.set_hostname , 355these boolean parameters are off by default. 356.Bl -tag -width indent 357.It Va allow.set_hostname 358The jail's hostname may be changed via 359.Xr hostname 1 360or 361.Xr sethostname 3 . 362.It Va allow.sysvipc 363A process within the jail has access to System V IPC primitives. 364In the current jail implementation, System V primitives share a single 365namespace across the host and jail environments, meaning that processes 366within a jail would be able to communicate with (and potentially interfere 367with) processes outside of the jail, and in other jails. 368.It Va allow.raw_sockets 369The prison root is allowed to create raw sockets. 370Setting this parameter allows utilities like 371.Xr ping 8 372and 373.Xr traceroute 8 374to operate inside the prison. 375If this is set, the source IP addresses are enforced to comply 376with the IP address bound to the jail, regardless of whether or not 377the 378.Dv IP_HDRINCL 379flag has been set on the socket. 380Since raw sockets can be used to configure and interact with various 381network subsystems, extra caution should be used where privileged access 382to jails is given out to untrusted parties. 383.It Va allow.chflags 384Normally, privileged users inside a jail are treated as unprivileged by 385.Xr chflags 2 . 386When this parameter is set, such users are treated as privileged, and 387may manipulate system file flags subject to the usual constraints on 388.Va kern.securelevel . 389.It Va allow.mount 390privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount file 391system types marked as jail-friendly. 392The 393.Xr lsvfs 1 394command can be used to find file system types available for mount from 395within a jail. 396.It Va allow.quotas 397The prison root may administer quotas on the jail's filesystem(s). 398This includes filesystems that the jail may share with other jails or 399with non-jailed parts of the system. 400.It Va allow.socket_af 401Sockets within a jail are normally restricted to IPv4, IPv6, local 402(UNIX), and route. This allows access to other protocol stacks that 403have not had jail functionality added to them. 404.El 405.El 406.Pp 407Jails are typically set up using one of two philosophies: either to 408constrain a specific application (possibly running with privilege), or 409to create a 410.Dq "virtual system image" 411running a variety of daemons and services. 412In both cases, a fairly complete file system install of 413.Fx 414is 415required, so as to provide the necessary command line tools, daemons, 416libraries, application configuration files, etc. 417However, for a virtual server configuration, a fair amount of 418additional work is required so as to configure the 419.Dq boot 420process. 421This manual page documents the configuration steps necessary to support 422either of these steps, although the configuration steps may be 423refined based on local requirements. 424.Sh EXAMPLES 425.Ss "Setting up a Jail Directory Tree" 426To set up a jail directory tree containing an entire 427.Fx 428distribution, the following 429.Xr sh 1 430command script can be used: 431.Bd -literal 432D=/here/is/the/jail 433cd /usr/src 434mkdir -p $D 435make world DESTDIR=$D 436make distribution DESTDIR=$D 437mount -t devfs devfs $D/dev 438.Ed 439.Pp 440NOTE: It is important that only appropriate device nodes in devfs be 441exposed to a jail; access to disk devices in the jail may permit processes 442in the jail to bypass the jail sandboxing by modifying files outside of 443the jail. 444See 445.Xr devfs 8 446for information on how to use devfs rules to limit access to entries 447in the per-jail devfs. 448A simple devfs ruleset for jails is available as ruleset #4 in 449.Pa /etc/defaults/devfs.rules . 450.Pp 451In many cases this example would put far more in the jail than needed. 452In the other extreme case a jail might contain only one file: 453the executable to be run in the jail. 454.Pp 455We recommend experimentation and caution that it is a lot easier to 456start with a 457.Dq fat 458jail and remove things until it stops working, 459than it is to start with a 460.Dq thin 461jail and add things until it works. 462.Ss "Setting Up a Jail" 463Do what was described in 464.Sx "Setting Up a Jail Directory Tree" 465to build the jail directory tree. 466For the sake of this example, we will 467assume you built it in 468.Pa /data/jail/192.0.2.100 , 469named for the jailed IP address. 470Substitute below as needed with your 471own directory, IP address, and hostname. 472.Ss "Setting up the Host Environment" 473First, you will want to set up your real system's environment to be 474.Dq jail-friendly . 475For consistency, we will refer to the parent box as the 476.Dq "host environment" , 477and to the jailed virtual machine as the 478.Dq "jail environment" . 479Since jail is implemented using IP aliases, one of the first things to do 480is to disable IP services on the host system that listen on all local 481IP addresses for a service. 482If a network service is present in the host environment that binds all 483available IP addresses rather than specific IP addresses, it may service 484requests sent to jail IP addresses if the jail did not bind the port. 485This means changing 486.Xr inetd 8 487to only listen on the 488appropriate IP address, and so forth. 489Add the following to 490.Pa /etc/rc.conf 491in the host environment: 492.Bd -literal -offset indent 493sendmail_enable="NO" 494inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.0.2.23" 495rpcbind_enable="NO" 496.Ed 497.Pp 498.Li 192.0.2.23 499is the native IP address for the host system, in this example. 500Daemons that run out of 501.Xr inetd 8 502can be easily set to use only the specified host IP address. 503Other daemons 504will need to be manually configured\(emfor some this is possible through 505the 506.Xr rc.conf 5 507flags entries; for others it is necessary to modify per-application 508configuration files, or to recompile the applications. 509The following frequently deployed services must have their individual 510configuration files modified to limit the application to listening 511to a specific IP address: 512.Pp 513To configure 514.Xr sshd 8 , 515it is necessary to modify 516.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config . 517.Pp 518To configure 519.Xr sendmail 8 , 520it is necessary to modify 521.Pa /etc/mail/sendmail.cf . 522.Pp 523For 524.Xr named 8 , 525it is necessary to modify 526.Pa /etc/namedb/named.conf . 527.Pp 528In addition, a number of services must be recompiled in order to run 529them in the host environment. 530This includes most applications providing services using 531.Xr rpc 3 , 532such as 533.Xr rpcbind 8 , 534.Xr nfsd 8 , 535and 536.Xr mountd 8 . 537In general, applications for which it is not possible to specify which 538IP address to bind should not be run in the host environment unless they 539should also service requests sent to jail IP addresses. 540Attempting to serve 541NFS from the host environment may also cause confusion, and cannot be 542easily reconfigured to use only specific IPs, as some NFS services are 543hosted directly from the kernel. 544Any third-party network software running 545in the host environment should also be checked and configured so that it 546does not bind all IP addresses, which would result in those services' also 547appearing to be offered by the jail environments. 548.Pp 549Once 550these daemons have been disabled or fixed in the host environment, it is 551best to reboot so that all daemons are in a known state, to reduce the 552potential for confusion later (such as finding that when you send mail 553to a jail, and its sendmail is down, the mail is delivered to the host, 554etc.). 555.Ss "Configuring the Jail" 556Start any jail for the first time without configuring the network 557interface so that you can clean it up a little and set up accounts. 558As 559with any machine (virtual or not) you will need to set a root password, time 560zone, etc. 561Some of these steps apply only if you intend to run a full virtual server 562inside the jail; others apply both for constraining a particular application 563or for running a virtual server. 564.Pp 565Start a shell in the jail: 566.Pp 567.Bd -literal -offset indent 568jail -c path=/data/jail/192.0.2.100 host.hostname=testhostname \\ 569 ip4.addr=192.0.2.100 command=/bin/sh 570.Ed 571.Pp 572Assuming no errors, you will end up with a shell prompt within the jail. 573You can now run 574.Pa /usr/sbin/sysinstall 575and do the post-install configuration to set various configuration options, 576or perform these actions manually by editing 577.Pa /etc/rc.conf , 578etc. 579.Pp 580.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact 581.It 582Create an empty 583.Pa /etc/fstab 584to quell startup warnings about missing fstab (virtual server only) 585.It 586Disable the port mapper 587.Pa ( /etc/rc.conf : 588.Li rpcbind_enable="NO" ) 589(virtual server only) 590.It 591Configure 592.Pa /etc/resolv.conf 593so that name resolution within the jail will work correctly 594.It 595Run 596.Xr newaliases 1 597to quell 598.Xr sendmail 8 599warnings. 600.It 601Disable interface configuration to quell startup warnings about 602.Xr ifconfig 8 603.Pq Li network_interfaces="" 604(virtual server only) 605.It 606Set a root password, probably different from the real host system 607.It 608Set the timezone 609.It 610Add accounts for users in the jail environment 611.It 612Install any packages the environment requires 613.El 614.Pp 615You may also want to perform any package-specific configuration (web servers, 616SSH servers, etc), patch up 617.Pa /etc/syslog.conf 618so it logs as you would like, etc. 619If you are not using a virtual server, you may wish to modify 620.Xr syslogd 8 621in the host environment to listen on the syslog socket in the jail 622environment; in this example, the syslog socket would be stored in 623.Pa /data/jail/192.0.2.100/var/run/log . 624.Pp 625Exit from the shell, and the jail will be shut down. 626.Ss "Starting the Jail" 627You are now ready to restart the jail and bring up the environment with 628all of its daemons and other programs. 629If you are running a single application in the jail, substitute the 630command used to start the application for 631.Pa /etc/rc 632in the examples below. 633To start a virtual server environment, 634.Pa /etc/rc 635is run to launch various daemons and services. 636To do this, first bring up the 637virtual host interface, and then start the jail's 638.Pa /etc/rc 639script from within the jail. 640.Bd -literal -offset indent 641ifconfig ed0 inet alias 192.0.2.100/32 642mount -t procfs proc /data/jail/192.0.2.100/proc 643jail -c path=/data/jail/192.0.2.100 host.hostname=testhostname \\ 644 ip4.addr=192.0.2.100 command=/bin/sh /etc/rc 645.Ed 646.Pp 647A few warnings will be produced, because most 648.Xr sysctl 8 649configuration variables cannot be set from within the jail, as they are 650global across all jails and the host environment. 651However, it should all 652work properly. 653You should be able to see 654.Xr inetd 8 , 655.Xr syslogd 8 , 656and other processes running within the jail using 657.Xr ps 1 , 658with the 659.Ql J 660flag appearing beside jailed processes. 661To see an active list of jails, use the 662.Xr jls 8 663utility. 664You should also be able to 665.Xr telnet 1 666to the hostname or IP address of the jailed environment, and log 667in using the accounts you created previously. 668.Pp 669It is possible to have jails started at boot time. 670Please refer to the 671.Dq jail_* 672variables in 673.Xr rc.conf 5 674for more information. 675The 676.Xr rc 8 677jail script provides a flexible system to start/stop jails: 678.Bd -literal 679/etc/rc.d/jail start 680/etc/rc.d/jail stop 681/etc/rc.d/jail start myjail 682/etc/rc.d/jail stop myjail 683.Ed 684.Ss "Managing the Jail" 685Normal machine shutdown commands, such as 686.Xr halt 8 , 687.Xr reboot 8 , 688and 689.Xr shutdown 8 , 690cannot be used successfully within the jail. 691To kill all processes in a 692jail, you may log into the jail and, as root, use one of the following 693commands, depending on what you want to accomplish: 694.Pp 695.Bd -literal -offset indent 696kill -TERM -1 697kill -KILL -1 698.Ed 699.Pp 700This will send the 701.Dv SIGTERM 702or 703.Dv SIGKILL 704signals to all processes in the jail from within the jail. 705Depending on 706the intended use of the jail, you may also want to run 707.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown 708from within the jail. 709To kill processes from outside the jail, use the 710.Xr jexec 8 711utility in conjunction with the one of the 712.Xr kill 1 713commands above. 714You may also remove the jail with 715.Nm 716.Ar -r , 717which will killall the jail's processes with 718.Dv SIGKILL . 719.Pp 720The 721.Pa /proc/ Ns Ar pid Ns Pa /status 722file contains, as its last field, the name of the jail in which the 723process runs, or 724.Dq Li - 725to indicate that the process is not running within a jail. 726The 727.Xr ps 1 728command also shows a 729.Ql J 730flag for processes in a jail. 731.Pp 732You can also list/kill processes based on their jail ID. 733To show processes and their jail ID, use the following command: 734.Pp 735.Dl "ps ax -o pid,jid,args" 736.Pp 737To show and then kill processes in jail number 3 use the following commands: 738.Bd -literal -offset indent 739pgrep -lfj 3 740pkill -j 3 741.Ed 742or: 743.Pp 744.Dl "killall -j 3" 745.Ss "Jails and File Systems" 746It is not possible to 747.Xr mount 8 748or 749.Xr umount 8 750any file system inside a jail unless the file system is marked 751jail-friendly and the jail's 752.Va allow.mount 753parameter is set. 754.Pp 755Multiple jails sharing the same file system can influence each other. 756For example a user in one jail can fill the file system also 757leaving no space for processes in the other jail. 758Trying to use 759.Xr quota 1 760to prevent this will not work either as the file system quotas 761are not aware of jails but only look at the user and group IDs. 762This means the same user ID in two jails share the same file 763system quota. 764One would need to use one file system per jail to make this work. 765.Ss "Sysctl MIB Entries" 766The read-only entry 767.Va security.jail.jailed 768can be used to determine if a process is running inside a jail (value 769is one) or not (value is zero). 770.Pp 771The variable 772.Va security.jail.max_af_ips 773determines how may address per address family a prison may have. 774The default is 255. 775.Pp 776Some MIB variables have per-jail settings. 777Changes to these variables by a jailed process do not effect the host 778environment, only the jail environment. 779These variables are 780.Va kern.securelevel , 781.Va kern.hostname , 782.Va kern.domainname , 783.Va kern.hostid , 784and 785.Va kern.hostuuid . 786.Ss "Hierarchical Jails" 787By setting a jail's 788.Va children.max 789parameter, processes within a jail may be able to create jails of their own. 790These child jails are kept in a hierarchy, with jails only able to see and/or 791modify the jails they created (or those jails' children). 792Each jail has a read-only 793.Va parent 794parameter, containing the 795.Va jid 796of the jail that created it; a 797.Va jid 798of 0 indicates the jail is a child of the current jail (or is a top-level 799jail if the current process isn't jailed). 800.Pp 801Jailed processes are not allowed to confer greater permissions than they 802themselves are given, e.g. if a jail is created with 803.Va allow.nomount , 804it is not able to create a jail with 805.Va allow.mount 806set. 807Similarly, such restrictions as 808.Va ip4.addr 809and 810.Va securelevel 811may not be bypassed in child jails. 812.Pp 813A child jail may in turn create its own child jails if its own 814.Va children.max 815parameter is set (remember it is zero by default). 816These jails are visible to and can be modified by their parent and all 817ancestors. 818.Pp 819Jail names reflect this hierarchy, with a full name being an MIB-type string 820separated by dots. 821For example, if a base system process creates a jail 822.Dq foo , 823and a process under that jail creates another jail 824.Dq bar , 825then the second jail will be seen as 826.Dq foo.bar 827in the base system (though it is only seen as 828.Dq bar 829to any processes inside jail 830.Dq foo ) . 831Jids on the other hand exist in a single space, and each jail must have a 832unique jid. 833.Pp 834Like the names, a child jail's 835.Va path 836is relative to its creator's own 837.Va path . 838This is by virtue of the child jail being created in the chrooted 839environment of the first jail. 840.Sh SEE ALSO 841.Xr killall 1 , 842.Xr lsvfs 1 , 843.Xr newaliases 1 , 844.Xr pgrep 1 , 845.Xr pkill 1 , 846.Xr ps 1 , 847.Xr quota 1 , 848.Xr chroot 2 , 849.Xr jail_set 2 , 850.Xr jail_attach 2 , 851.Xr procfs 5 , 852.Xr rc.conf 5 , 853.Xr sysctl.conf 5 , 854.Xr devfs 8 , 855.Xr halt 8 , 856.Xr inetd 8 , 857.Xr jexec 8 , 858.Xr jls 8 , 859.Xr mount 8 , 860.Xr named 8 , 861.Xr reboot 8 , 862.Xr rpcbind 8 , 863.Xr sendmail 8 , 864.Xr shutdown 8 , 865.Xr sysctl 8 , 866.Xr syslogd 8 , 867.Xr umount 8 868.Sh HISTORY 869The 870.Nm 871utility appeared in 872.Fx 4.0 . 873Hierarchical/extensible jails were introduced in 874.Fx 8.0 . 875.Sh AUTHORS 876.An -nosplit 877The jail feature was written by 878.An Poul-Henning Kamp 879for R&D Associates 880.Pa http://www.rndassociates.com/ 881who contributed it to 882.Fx . 883.Pp 884.An Robert Watson 885wrote the extended documentation, found a few bugs, added 886a few new features, and cleaned up the userland jail environment. 887.Pp 888.An Bjoern A. Zeeb 889added multi-IP jail support for IPv4 and IPv6 based on a patch 890originally done by 891.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek 892for IPv4. 893.Pp 894.An James Gritton 895added the extensible jail parameters and hierarchical jails. 896.Sh BUGS 897Jail currently lacks the ability to allow access to 898specific jail information via 899.Xr ps 1 900as opposed to 901.Xr procfs 5 . 902Similarly, it might be a good idea to add an 903address alias flag such that daemons listening on all IPs 904.Pq Dv INADDR_ANY 905will not bind on that address, which would facilitate building a safe 906host environment such that host daemons do not impose on services offered 907from within jails. 908Currently, the simplest answer is to minimize services 909offered on the host, possibly limiting it to services offered from 910.Xr inetd 8 911which is easily configurable. 912