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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 May 23, 2012 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 is specified via parameters on the command line, or in the 67.Xr jail.conf 5 68file. 69.Pp 70At least one of the options 71.Fl c , 72.Fl m 73or 74.Fl r 75must be specified. 76These options are used alone or in combination describe the operation to 77perform: 78.Bl -tag -width indent 79.It Fl c 80Create a new jail. 81The jail 82.Va jid 83and 84.Va name 85parameters (if specified) on the command line, 86or any jails 87must not refer to an existing jail. 88.It Fl m 89Modify an existing jail. 90One of the 91.Va jid 92or 93.Va name 94parameters must exist and refer to an existing jail. 95Some parameters may not be changed on a running jail. 96.It Fl r 97Remove the 98.Ar jail 99specified by jid or name. 100All jailed processes are killed, and all children of this jail are also 101removed. 102.It Fl rc 103Restart an existing jail. 104The jail is first removed and then re-created, as if 105.Dq Nm Fl c 106and 107.Dq Nm Fl r 108were run in succession. 109.It Fl cm 110Create a jail if it does not exist, or modify the jail if it does exist. 111.It Fl mr 112Modify an existing jail. 113The jail may be restarted if necessary to modify parameters than could 114not otherwise be changed. 115.It Fl cmr 116Create a jail if it doesn't exist, or modify (and possibly restart) the 117jail if it does exist. 118.El 119.Pp 120Other available options are: 121.Bl -tag -width indent 122.It Fl d 123Allow making changes to a dying jail, equivalent to the 124.Va allow.dying 125parameter. 126.It Fl f Ar conf_file 127Use configuration file 128.Ar conf_file 129instead of the default 130.Pa /etc/jail.conf . 131.It Fl h 132Resolve the 133.Va host.hostname 134parameter (or 135.Va hostname ) 136and add all IP addresses returned by the resolver 137to the list of addresses for this prison. 138This is equivalent to the 139.Va ip_hostname 140parameter. 141.It Fl i 142Output (only) the jail identifier of the newly created jail(s). 143This implies the 144.Fl q 145option. 146.It Fl J Ar jid_file 147Write a 148.Ar jid_file 149file, containing parameters used to start the jail. 150.It Fl l 151Run commands in a clean environment. 152This is deprecated and is equivalent to the exec.clean parameter. 153.It Fl n Ar jailname 154Set the jail's name. 155This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 156.Va name 157parameter. 158.It Fl p Ar limit 159Limit the number of commands from 160.Va exec.* 161that can run simultaneously. 162.It Fl q 163Suppress the message printed whenever a jail is created, modified or removed. 164Only error messages will be printed. 165.It Fl R 166A variation of the 167.Fl r 168option that removes an existing jail without using the configuration file. 169No removal-related parameters for this jail will be used - the jail will 170simply be removed. 171.It Fl s Ar securelevel 172Set the 173.Va kern.securelevel 174MIB entry to the specified value inside the newly created jail. 175This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 176.Va securelevel 177parameter. 178.It Fl u Ar username 179The user name from host environment as whom jailed commands should run. 180This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 181.Va exec.jail_user 182and 183.Va exec.system_jail_user 184parameters. 185.It Fl U Ar username 186The user name from jailed environment as whom jailed commands should run. 187This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 188.Va exec.jail_user 189parameter. 190.It Fl v 191Print a message on every operation, such as running commands and 192mounting filesystems. 193.El 194.Pp 195If no arguments are given after the options, the operation (except 196remove) will be performed on all jails specified in the 197.Xr jail.conf 5 198file. 199A single argument of a jail name will operate only on the specified jail. 200The 201.Fl r 202and 203.Fl R 204options can also remove running jails that aren't in the 205.Xr jail.conf 5 206file, specified by name or jid. 207.Pp 208An argument of 209.Dq * 210is a wildcard that will operate on all jails, regardless of whether 211they appear in 212.Xr jail.conf 5 ; 213this is the surest way for 214.Fl r 215to remove all jails. 216If hierarchical jails exist, a partial-matching wildcard definition may 217be specified. 218For example, an argument of 219.Dq foo.* 220would apply to jails with names like 221.Dq foo.bar 222and 223.Dq foo.bar.baz . 224.Pp 225A jail may be specified with parameters directly on the command line. 226In this case, the 227.Xr jail.conf 5 228file will not be used. 229For backward compatibility, the command line may also have four fixed 230parameters, without names: 231.Ar path , 232.Ar hostname , 233.Ar ip , 234and 235.Ar command . 236This mode will always create a new jail, and the 237.Fl c 238and 239.Fl m 240options don't apply (and must not exist). 241.Ss Jail Parameters 242Parameters in the 243.Xr jail.conf 5 244file, or on the command line, are generally in 245.Dq name=value 246form. 247Some parameters are boolean, and do not have a value but are set by the 248name alone with or without a 249.Dq no 250prefix, e.g. 251.Va persist 252or 253.Va nopersist . 254They can also be given the values 255.Dq true 256and 257.Dq false . 258Other parameters may have more than one value, specified as a 259comma-separated list or with 260.Dq += 261in the configuration file (see 262.Xr jail.conf 5 263for details). 264.Pp 265The 266.Nm 267utility recognizes two classes of parameters. There are the true jail 268parameters that are passed to the kernel when the jail is created, 269can be seen with 270.Xr jls 8 , 271and can (usually) be changed with 272.Dq Nm Fl m . 273Then there are pseudo-parameters that are only used by 274.Nm 275itself. 276.Pp 277Jails have a set a core parameters, and kernel modules can add their own 278jail parameters. 279The current set of available parameters can be retrieved via 280.Dq Nm sysctl Fl d Va security.jail.param . 281Any parameters not set will be given default values, often based on the 282current environment. 283The core parameters are: 284.Bl -tag -width indent 285.It Va jid 286The jail identifier. 287This will be assigned automatically to a new jail (or can be explicitly 288set), and can be used to identify the jail for later modification, or 289for such commands as 290.Xr jls 8 291or 292.Xr jexec 8 . 293.It Va name 294The jail name. 295This is an arbitrary string that identifies a jail (except it may not 296contain a 297.Sq \&. ) . 298Like the 299.Va jid , 300it can be passed to later 301.Nm 302commands, or to 303.Xr jls 8 304or 305.Xr jexec 8 . 306If no 307.Va name 308is supplied, a default is assumed that is the same as the 309.Va jid . 310The 311.Va name 312parameter is implied by the 313.Xr jail.conf 5 314file format, and need not be explicitly set when using the configuration 315file. 316.It Va path 317The directory which is to be the root of the prison. 318Any commands run inside the prison, either by 319.Nm 320or from 321.Xr jexec 8 , 322are run from this directory. 323.It Va ip4.addr 324A list of IPv4 addresses assigned to the prison. 325If this is set, the jail is restricted to using only these addresses. 326Any attempts to use other addresses fail, and attempts to use wildcard 327addresses silently use the jailed address instead. 328For IPv4 the first address given will be kept used as the source address 329in case source address selection on unbound sockets cannot find a better 330match. 331It is only possible to start multiple jails with the same IP address, 332if none of the jails has more than this single overlapping IP address 333assigned to itself. 334.It Va ip4.saddrsel 335A boolean option to change the formerly mentioned behaviour and disable 336IPv4 source address selection for the prison in favour of the primary 337IPv4 address of the jail. 338Source address selection is enabled by default for all jails and the 339.Va ip4.nosaddrsel 340setting of a parent jail is not inherited for any child jails. 341.It Va ip4 342Control the availability of IPv4 addresses. 343Possible values are 344.Dq inherit 345to allow unrestricted access to all system addresses, 346.Dq new 347to restrict addresses via 348.Va ip4.addr 349above, and 350.Dq disable 351to stop the jail from using IPv4 entirely. 352Setting the 353.Va ip4.addr 354parameter implies a value of 355.Dq new . 356.It Va ip6.addr , Va ip6.saddrsel , Va ip6 357A set of IPv6 options for the prison, the counterparts to 358.Va ip4.addr , 359.Va ip4.saddrsel 360and 361.Va ip4 362above. 363.It vnet 364Create the prison with its own virtual network stack, 365with its own network interfaces, addresses, routing table, etc. 366The kernel must have been compiled with the 367.Sy VIMAGE option 368for this to be available. 369Possible values are 370.Dq inherit 371to use the system network stack, possibly with restricted IP addresses, 372and 373.Dq new 374to create a new network stack. 375.It Va host.hostname 376The hostname of the prison. 377Other similar parameters are 378.Va host.domainname , 379.Va host.hostuuid 380and 381.Va host.hostid . 382.It Va host 383Set the origin of hostname and related information. 384Possible values are 385.Dq inherit 386to use the system information and 387.Dq new 388for the jail to use the information from the above fields. 389Setting any of the above fields implies a value of 390.Dq new . 391.It Va securelevel 392The value of the jail's 393.Va kern.securelevel 394sysctl. 395A jail never has a lower securelevel than the default system, but by 396setting this parameter it may have a higher one. 397If the system securelevel is changed, any jail securelevels will be at 398least as secure. 399.It Va devfs_ruleset 400The number of the devfs ruleset that is enforced for mounting devfs in 401this jail. 402A value of zero (default) means no ruleset is enforced. 403Descendant jails inherit the parent jail's devfs ruleset enforcement. 404Mounting devfs inside a jail is possible only if the 405.Va allow.mount 406and 407.Va allow.mount.devfs 408permissions are effective and 409.Va enforce_statfs 410is set to a value lower than 2. 411Devfs rules and rulesets cannot be viewed or modified from inside a jail. 412.Pp 413NOTE: It is important that only appropriate device nodes in devfs be 414exposed to a jail; access to disk devices in the jail may permit processes 415in the jail to bypass the jail sandboxing by modifying files outside of 416the jail. 417See 418.Xr devfs 8 419for information on how to use devfs rules to limit access to entries 420in the per-jail devfs. 421A simple devfs ruleset for jails is available as ruleset #4 in 422.Pa /etc/defaults/devfs.rules . 423.It Va children.max 424The number of child jails allowed to be created by this jail (or by 425other jails under this jail). 426This limit is zero by default, indicating the jail is not allowed to 427create child jails. 428See the 429.Sx "Hierarchical Jails" 430section for more information. 431.It Va children.cur 432The number of descendants of this jail, including its own child jails 433and any jails created under them. 434.It Va enforce_statfs 435This determines which information processes in a jail are able to get 436about mount points. 437It affects the behaviour of the following syscalls: 438.Xr statfs 2 , 439.Xr fstatfs 2 , 440.Xr getfsstat 2 441and 442.Xr fhstatfs 2 443(as well as similar compatibility syscalls). 444When set to 0, all mount points are available without any restrictions. 445When set to 1, only mount points below the jail's chroot directory are 446visible. 447In addition to that, the path to the jail's chroot directory is removed 448from the front of their pathnames. 449When set to 2 (default), above syscalls can operate only on a mount-point 450where the jail's chroot directory is located. 451.It Va persist 452Setting this boolean parameter allows a jail to exist without any 453processes. 454Normally, a command is run as part of jail creation, and then the jail 455is destroyed as its last process exits. 456A new jail must have either the 457.Va persist 458parameter or 459.Va exec.start 460or 461.Va command 462pseudo-parameter set. 463.It Va cpuset.id 464The ID of the cpuset associated with this jail (read-only). 465.It Va dying 466This is true if the jail is in the process of shutting down (read-only). 467.It Va parent 468The 469.Va jid 470of the parent of this jail, or zero if this is a top-level jail 471(read-only). 472.It Va allow.* 473Some restrictions of the jail environment may be set on a per-jail 474basis. 475With the exception of 476.Va allow.set_hostname , 477these boolean parameters are off by default. 478.Bl -tag -width indent 479.It Va allow.set_hostname 480The jail's hostname may be changed via 481.Xr hostname 1 482or 483.Xr sethostname 3 . 484.It Va allow.sysvipc 485A process within the jail has access to System V IPC primitives. 486In the current jail implementation, System V primitives share a single 487namespace across the host and jail environments, meaning that processes 488within a jail would be able to communicate with (and potentially interfere 489with) processes outside of the jail, and in other jails. 490.It Va allow.raw_sockets 491The prison root is allowed to create raw sockets. 492Setting this parameter allows utilities like 493.Xr ping 8 494and 495.Xr traceroute 8 496to operate inside the prison. 497If this is set, the source IP addresses are enforced to comply 498with the IP address bound to the jail, regardless of whether or not 499the 500.Dv IP_HDRINCL 501flag has been set on the socket. 502Since raw sockets can be used to configure and interact with various 503network subsystems, extra caution should be used where privileged access 504to jails is given out to untrusted parties. 505.It Va allow.chflags 506Normally, privileged users inside a jail are treated as unprivileged by 507.Xr chflags 2 . 508When this parameter is set, such users are treated as privileged, and 509may manipulate system file flags subject to the usual constraints on 510.Va kern.securelevel . 511.It Va allow.mount 512privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount file 513system types marked as jail-friendly. 514The 515.Xr lsvfs 1 516command can be used to find file system types available for mount from 517within a jail. 518This permission is effective only if 519.Va enforce_statfs 520is set to a value lower than 2. 521.It Va allow.mount.devfs 522privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 523devfs file system. 524This permission is effective only together with 525.Va allow.mount 526and if 527.Va enforce_statfs 528is set to a value lower than 2. 529Please consider restricting the devfs ruleset with the 530.Va devfs_ruleset 531option. 532.It Va allow.mount.nullfs 533privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 534nullfs file system. 535This permission is effective only together with 536.Va allow.mount 537and if 538.Va enforce_statfs 539is set to a value lower than 2. 540.It Va allow.mount.procfs 541privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 542procfs file system. 543This permission is effective only together with 544.Va allow.mount 545and if 546.Va enforce_statfs 547is set to a value lower than 2. 548.It Va allow.mount.zfs 549privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 550ZFS file system. 551This permission is effective only together with 552.Va allow.mount 553and if 554.Va enforce_statfs 555is set to a value lower than 2. 556See 557.Xr zfs 8 558for information on how to configure the ZFS filesystem to operate from 559within a jail. 560.It Va allow.quotas 561The prison root may administer quotas on the jail's filesystem(s). 562This includes filesystems that the jail may share with other jails or 563with non-jailed parts of the system. 564.It Va allow.socket_af 565Sockets within a jail are normally restricted to IPv4, IPv6, local 566(UNIX), and route. This allows access to other protocol stacks that 567have not had jail functionality added to them. 568.El 569.El 570.Pp 571There are pseudo-parameters that aren't passed to the kernel, but are 572used by 573.Nm 574to set up the prison environment, often by running specified commands 575when jails are created or removed. 576The 577.Va exec.* 578command parameters are 579.Xr sh 1 580command lines that are run in either the system or prison environment. 581They may be given multiple values, which run would the specified 582commands in sequence. 583All commands must succeed (return a zero exit status), or the jail will 584not be created or removed. 585.Pp 586The pseudo-parameters are: 587.Bl -tag -width indent 588.It Va exec.prestart 589Command(s) to run in the system environment before a prison is created. 590.It Va exec.start 591Command(s) to run in the prison environment when a jail is created. 592A typical command to run is 593.Dq sh /etc/rc . 594.It Va command 595A synonym for 596.Va exec.start 597for use when specifying a prison directly on the command line. 598Unlike other parameters whose value is a single string, 599.Va command 600uses the remainder of the 601.Nm 602command line as its own arguments. 603.It Va exec.poststart 604Command(s) to run in the system environment after a jail is created, 605and after any 606.Va exec.start 607commands have completed. 608.It Va exec.prestop 609Command(s) to run in the system environment before a jail is removed. 610.It Va exec.stop 611Command(s) to run in the prison environment before a jail is removed, 612and after any 613.Va exec.prestop 614commands have completed. 615A typical command to run is 616.Dq sh /etc/rc.shutdown . 617.It Va exec.poststop 618Command(s) to run in the system environment after a jail is removed. 619.It Va exec.clean 620Run commands in a clean environment. 621The environment is discarded except for 622.Ev HOME , SHELL , TERM 623and 624.Ev USER . 625.Ev HOME 626and 627.Ev SHELL 628are set to the target login's default values. 629.Ev USER 630is set to the target login. 631.Ev TERM 632is imported from the current environment. 633The environment variables from the login class capability database for the 634target login are also set. 635.It Va exec.jail_user 636The user to run commands as, when running in the prison environment. 637The default is to run the commands as the current user. 638.It Va exec.system_jail_user 639This boolean option looks for the 640.Va exec.jail_user 641in the system 642.Xr passwd 5 643file, instead of in the prison's file. 644.It Va exec.system_user 645The user to run commands as, when running in the system environment. 646The default is to run the commands as the current user. 647.It Va exec.timeout 648The maximum amount of time to wait for a command to complete. 649If a command is still running after this many seconds have passed, 650the jail not be created or removed. 651.It Va exec.consolelog 652A file to direct command output (stdout and stderr) to. 653.It Va exec.fib 654The FIB (routing table) to set when running commands inside the prison. 655.It Va stop.timeout 656The maximum amount of time to wait for a prison's processes to exit 657after sending them a 658.Dv SIGTERM 659signal (which happens after the 660.Va exec.stop 661commands have completed). 662After this many seconds have passed, the prison will be removed, which 663will kill any remaining processes. 664If this is set to zero, no 665.Dv SIGTERM 666is sent and the prison is immediately removed. 667The default is 10 seconds. 668.It Va interface 669A network interface to add the prison's IP addresses 670.Va ( ip4.addr 671and 672.Va ip6.addr ) 673to. 674An alias for each address will be added to the interface before the 675prison is created, and will be removed from the interface after the 676prison is removed. 677.It Op Va ip4.addr 678In addition to the IP addresses that are passed to the kernel, and 679interface and/or a netmask may also be specified, in the form 680.Dq Ar interface Ns | Ns Ar ip-address Ns / Ns Ar netmask . 681If an interface is given before the IP address, an alias for the address 682will be added to that interface, as it is with the 683.Va interface 684parameter. If a netmask in either dotted-quad or CIDR form is given 685after IP address, it will be used when adding the IP alias. 686.It Op Va ip6.addr 687In addition to the IP addresses that are passed to the kernel, 688and interface and/or a prefix may also be specified, in the form 689.Dq Ar interface Ns | Ns Ar ip-address Ns / Ns Ar prefix . 690.It Va vnet.interface 691A network interface to give to a vnet-enabled jail after is it created. 692The interface will automatically be returned when the jail is removed. 693.It Va ip_hostname 694Resolve the 695.Va host.hostname 696parameter and add all IP addresses returned by the resolver 697to the list of addresses 698.Va ( ip4.addr 699or 700.Va ip6.addr ) 701for this prison. 702This may affect default address selection for outgoing IPv4 connections 703of prisons. 704The address first returned by the resolver for each address family 705will be used as primary address. 706.It Va mount 707A filesystem to mount before creating the jail (and to unmount after 708removing it), given as a single 709.Xr fstab 5 710line. 711.It Va mount.fstab 712An 713.Xr fstab 5 714format file containing filesystems to mount before creating a jail. 715.It Va mount.devfs 716Mount a 717.Xr devfs 718filesystem on the chrooted /dev directory, and apply the ruleset in the 719.Va devfs_ruleset 720parameter (or a default of ruleset 4: devfsrules_jail) 721to restrict the devices visible inside the prison. 722.It Va allow.dying 723Allow making changes to a 724.Va dying 725jail. 726.It Va depend 727Specify a jail (or jails) that this jail depends on. 728Any such jails must be fully created, up to the last 729.Va exec.poststart 730command, before any action will taken to create this jail. 731When jails are removed the opposite is true: 732this jail must be fully removed, up to the last 733.Va exec.poststop 734command, before the jail(s) it depends on are stopped. 735.El 736.Sh EXAMPLES 737Jails are typically set up using one of two philosophies: either to 738constrain a specific application (possibly running with privilege), or 739to create a 740.Dq "virtual system image" 741running a variety of daemons and services. 742In both cases, a fairly complete file system install of 743.Fx 744is 745required, so as to provide the necessary command line tools, daemons, 746libraries, application configuration files, etc. 747However, for a virtual server configuration, a fair amount of 748additional work is required so as to configure the 749.Dq boot 750process. 751This manual page documents the configuration steps necessary to support 752either of these steps, although the configuration steps may be 753refined based on local requirements. 754.Ss "Setting up a Jail Directory Tree" 755To set up a jail directory tree containing an entire 756.Fx 757distribution, the following 758.Xr sh 1 759command script can be used: 760.Bd -literal 761D=/here/is/the/jail 762cd /usr/src 763mkdir -p $D 764make world DESTDIR=$D 765make distribution DESTDIR=$D 766.Ed 767.Pp 768In many cases this example would put far more in the jail than needed. 769In the other extreme case a jail might contain only one file: 770the executable to be run in the jail. 771.Pp 772We recommend experimentation and caution that it is a lot easier to 773start with a 774.Dq fat 775jail and remove things until it stops working, 776than it is to start with a 777.Dq thin 778jail and add things until it works. 779.Ss "Setting Up a Jail" 780Do what was described in 781.Sx "Setting Up a Jail Directory Tree" 782to build the jail directory tree. 783For the sake of this example, we will 784assume you built it in 785.Pa /data/jail/testjail , 786for a jail named 787.Dq testjail . 788Substitute below as needed with your 789own directory, IP address, and hostname. 790.Ss "Setting up the Host Environment" 791First, you will want to set up your real system's environment to be 792.Dq jail-friendly . 793For consistency, we will refer to the parent box as the 794.Dq "host environment" , 795and to the jailed virtual machine as the 796.Dq "jail environment" . 797Since jail is implemented using IP aliases, one of the first things to do 798is to disable IP services on the host system that listen on all local 799IP addresses for a service. 800If a network service is present in the host environment that binds all 801available IP addresses rather than specific IP addresses, it may service 802requests sent to jail IP addresses if the jail did not bind the port. 803This means changing 804.Xr inetd 8 805to only listen on the 806appropriate IP address, and so forth. 807Add the following to 808.Pa /etc/rc.conf 809in the host environment: 810.Bd -literal -offset indent 811sendmail_enable="NO" 812inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.0.2.23" 813rpcbind_enable="NO" 814.Ed 815.Pp 816.Li 192.0.2.23 817is the native IP address for the host system, in this example. 818Daemons that run out of 819.Xr inetd 8 820can be easily set to use only the specified host IP address. 821Other daemons 822will need to be manually configured\(emfor some this is possible through 823the 824.Xr rc.conf 5 825flags entries; for others it is necessary to modify per-application 826configuration files, or to recompile the applications. 827The following frequently deployed services must have their individual 828configuration files modified to limit the application to listening 829to a specific IP address: 830.Pp 831To configure 832.Xr sshd 8 , 833it is necessary to modify 834.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config . 835.Pp 836To configure 837.Xr sendmail 8 , 838it is necessary to modify 839.Pa /etc/mail/sendmail.cf . 840.Pp 841For 842.Xr named 8 , 843it is necessary to modify 844.Pa /etc/namedb/named.conf . 845.Pp 846In addition, a number of services must be recompiled in order to run 847them in the host environment. 848This includes most applications providing services using 849.Xr rpc 3 , 850such as 851.Xr rpcbind 8 , 852.Xr nfsd 8 , 853and 854.Xr mountd 8 . 855In general, applications for which it is not possible to specify which 856IP address to bind should not be run in the host environment unless they 857should also service requests sent to jail IP addresses. 858Attempting to serve 859NFS from the host environment may also cause confusion, and cannot be 860easily reconfigured to use only specific IPs, as some NFS services are 861hosted directly from the kernel. 862Any third-party network software running 863in the host environment should also be checked and configured so that it 864does not bind all IP addresses, which would result in those services' also 865appearing to be offered by the jail environments. 866.Pp 867Once 868these daemons have been disabled or fixed in the host environment, it is 869best to reboot so that all daemons are in a known state, to reduce the 870potential for confusion later (such as finding that when you send mail 871to a jail, and its sendmail is down, the mail is delivered to the host, 872etc.). 873.Ss "Configuring the Jail" 874Start any jail for the first time without configuring the network 875interface so that you can clean it up a little and set up accounts. 876As 877with any machine (virtual or not) you will need to set a root password, time 878zone, etc. 879Some of these steps apply only if you intend to run a full virtual server 880inside the jail; others apply both for constraining a particular application 881or for running a virtual server. 882.Pp 883Start a shell in the jail: 884.Bd -literal -offset indent 885jail -c path=/data/jail/testjail mount.devfs host.hostname=testhostname \\ 886 ip4.addr=192.0.2.100 command=/bin/sh 887.Ed 888.Pp 889Assuming no errors, you will end up with a shell prompt within the jail. 890You can now run 891.Pa /usr/sbin/sysinstall 892and do the post-install configuration to set various configuration options, 893or perform these actions manually by editing 894.Pa /etc/rc.conf , 895etc. 896.Pp 897.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact 898.It 899Configure 900.Pa /etc/resolv.conf 901so that name resolution within the jail will work correctly 902.It 903Run 904.Xr newaliases 1 905to quell 906.Xr sendmail 8 907warnings. 908.It 909Set a root password, probably different from the real host system 910.It 911Set the timezone 912.It 913Add accounts for users in the jail environment 914.It 915Install any packages the environment requires 916.El 917.Pp 918You may also want to perform any package-specific configuration (web servers, 919SSH servers, etc), patch up 920.Pa /etc/syslog.conf 921so it logs as you would like, etc. 922If you are not using a virtual server, you may wish to modify 923.Xr syslogd 8 924in the host environment to listen on the syslog socket in the jail 925environment; in this example, the syslog socket would be stored in 926.Pa /data/jail/testjail/var/run/log . 927.Pp 928Exit from the shell, and the jail will be shut down. 929.Ss "Starting the Jail" 930You are now ready to restart the jail and bring up the environment with 931all of its daemons and other programs. 932Create an entry for the jail in 933.Pa /etc/jail.conf : 934.Bd -literal -offset indent 935testjail { 936 path = /tmp/jail/testjail; 937 mount.devfs; 938 host.hostname = testhostname; 939 ip4.addr = 192.0.2.100; 940 interface = ed0; 941 exec.start = "/bin/sh /etc/rc"; 942 exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown"; 943} 944.Ed 945.Pp 946To start a virtual server environment, 947.Pa /etc/rc 948is run to launch various daemons and services, and 949.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown 950is run to shut them down when the jail is removed. 951If you are running a single application in the jail, 952substitute the command used to start the application for 953.Dq /bin/sh /etc/rc ; 954there may be some script available to cleanly shut down the application, 955or it may be sufficient to go without a stop command, and have 956.Nm 957send 958.Dv SIGTERM 959to the application. 960.Pp 961Start the jail by running: 962.Bd -literal -offset indent 963jail -c testjail 964.Ed 965.Pp 966A few warnings may be produced; however, it should all work properly. 967You should be able to see 968.Xr inetd 8 , 969.Xr syslogd 8 , 970and other processes running within the jail using 971.Xr ps 1 , 972with the 973.Ql J 974flag appearing beside jailed processes. 975To see an active list of jails, use the 976.Xr jls 8 977utility. 978You should also be able to 979.Xr telnet 1 980to the hostname or IP address of the jailed environment, and log 981in using the accounts you created previously. 982.Pp 983It is possible to have jails started at boot time. 984Please refer to the 985.Dq jail_* 986variables in 987.Xr rc.conf 5 988for more information. 989.Ss "Managing the Jail" 990Normal machine shutdown commands, such as 991.Xr halt 8 , 992.Xr reboot 8 , 993and 994.Xr shutdown 8 , 995cannot be used successfully within the jail. 996To kill all processes from within a jail, you may use one of the 997following commands, depending on what you want to accomplish: 998.Bd -literal -offset indent 999kill -TERM -1 1000kill -KILL -1 1001.Ed 1002.Pp 1003This will send the 1004.Dv SIGTERM 1005or 1006.Dv SIGKILL 1007signals to all processes in the jail - be careful not to run this from 1008the host environment! 1009Once all of the jail's processes have died, unless the jail was created 1010with the 1011.Va persist 1012parameter, the jail will be removed. 1013Depending on 1014the intended use of the jail, you may also want to run 1015.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown 1016from within the jail. 1017.Pp 1018To shut down the jail from the outside, simply remove it with 1019.Nm 1020.Ar -r , 1021which will run any commands specified by 1022.Va exec.stop , 1023and then send 1024.Dv SIGTERM 1025and eventually 1026.Dv SIGKILL 1027to any remaining jailed processes. 1028.Pp 1029The 1030.Pa /proc/ Ns Ar pid Ns Pa /status 1031file contains, as its last field, the name of the jail in which the 1032process runs, or 1033.Dq Li - 1034to indicate that the process is not running within a jail. 1035The 1036.Xr ps 1 1037command also shows a 1038.Ql J 1039flag for processes in a jail. 1040.Pp 1041You can also list/kill processes based on their jail ID. 1042To show processes and their jail ID, use the following command: 1043.Pp 1044.Dl "ps ax -o pid,jid,args" 1045.Pp 1046To show and then kill processes in jail number 3 use the following commands: 1047.Bd -literal -offset indent 1048pgrep -lfj 3 1049pkill -j 3 1050.Ed 1051or: 1052.Pp 1053.Dl "killall -j 3" 1054.Ss "Jails and File Systems" 1055It is not possible to 1056.Xr mount 8 1057or 1058.Xr umount 8 1059any file system inside a jail unless the file system is marked 1060jail-friendly, the jail's 1061.Va allow.mount 1062parameter is set and the jail's 1063.Va enforce_statfs 1064parameter is lower than 2. 1065.Pp 1066Multiple jails sharing the same file system can influence each other. 1067For example a user in one jail can fill the file system also 1068leaving no space for processes in the other jail. 1069Trying to use 1070.Xr quota 1 1071to prevent this will not work either as the file system quotas 1072are not aware of jails but only look at the user and group IDs. 1073This means the same user ID in two jails share the same file 1074system quota. 1075One would need to use one file system per jail to make this work. 1076.Ss "Sysctl MIB Entries" 1077The read-only entry 1078.Va security.jail.jailed 1079can be used to determine if a process is running inside a jail (value 1080is one) or not (value is zero). 1081.Pp 1082The variable 1083.Va security.jail.max_af_ips 1084determines how may address per address family a prison may have. 1085The default is 255. 1086.Pp 1087Some MIB variables have per-jail settings. 1088Changes to these variables by a jailed process do not effect the host 1089environment, only the jail environment. 1090These variables are 1091.Va kern.securelevel , 1092.Va kern.hostname , 1093.Va kern.domainname , 1094.Va kern.hostid , 1095and 1096.Va kern.hostuuid . 1097.Ss "Hierarchical Jails" 1098By setting a jail's 1099.Va children.max 1100parameter, processes within a jail may be able to create jails of their own. 1101These child jails are kept in a hierarchy, with jails only able to see and/or 1102modify the jails they created (or those jails' children). 1103Each jail has a read-only 1104.Va parent 1105parameter, containing the 1106.Va jid 1107of the jail that created it; a 1108.Va jid 1109of 0 indicates the jail is a child of the current jail (or is a top-level 1110jail if the current process isn't jailed). 1111.Pp 1112Jailed processes are not allowed to confer greater permissions than they 1113themselves are given, e.g. if a jail is created with 1114.Va allow.nomount , 1115it is not able to create a jail with 1116.Va allow.mount 1117set. 1118Similarly, such restrictions as 1119.Va ip4.addr 1120and 1121.Va securelevel 1122may not be bypassed in child jails. 1123.Pp 1124A child jail may in turn create its own child jails if its own 1125.Va children.max 1126parameter is set (remember it is zero by default). 1127These jails are visible to and can be modified by their parent and all 1128ancestors. 1129.Pp 1130Jail names reflect this hierarchy, with a full name being an MIB-type string 1131separated by dots. 1132For example, if a base system process creates a jail 1133.Dq foo , 1134and a process under that jail creates another jail 1135.Dq bar , 1136then the second jail will be seen as 1137.Dq foo.bar 1138in the base system (though it is only seen as 1139.Dq bar 1140to any processes inside jail 1141.Dq foo ) . 1142Jids on the other hand exist in a single space, and each jail must have a 1143unique jid. 1144.Pp 1145Like the names, a child jail's 1146.Va path 1147appears relative to its creator's own 1148.Va path . 1149This is by virtue of the child jail being created in the chrooted 1150environment of the first jail. 1151.Sh SEE ALSO 1152.Xr killall 1 , 1153.Xr lsvfs 1 , 1154.Xr newaliases 1 , 1155.Xr pgrep 1 , 1156.Xr pkill 1 , 1157.Xr ps 1 , 1158.Xr quota 1 , 1159.Xr jail_set 2 , 1160.Xr jail.conf 5 , 1161.Xr procfs 5 , 1162.Xr rc.conf 5 , 1163.Xr sysctl.conf 5 , 1164.Xr chroot 8 , 1165.Xr devfs 8 , 1166.Xr halt 8 , 1167.Xr inetd 8 , 1168.Xr jexec 8 , 1169.Xr jls 8 , 1170.Xr mount 8 , 1171.Xr named 8 , 1172.Xr reboot 8 , 1173.Xr rpcbind 8 , 1174.Xr sendmail 8 , 1175.Xr shutdown 8 , 1176.Xr sysctl 8 , 1177.Xr syslogd 8 , 1178.Xr umount 8 1179.Sh HISTORY 1180The 1181.Nm 1182utility appeared in 1183.Fx 4.0 . 1184Hierarchical/extensible jails were introduced in 1185.Fx 8.0 . 1186The configuration file was introduced in 1187.Fx 9.1 . 1188.Sh AUTHORS 1189.An -nosplit 1190The jail feature was written by 1191.An Poul-Henning Kamp 1192for R&D Associates 1193.Pa http://www.rndassociates.com/ 1194who contributed it to 1195.Fx . 1196.Pp 1197.An Robert Watson 1198wrote the extended documentation, found a few bugs, added 1199a few new features, and cleaned up the userland jail environment. 1200.Pp 1201.An Bjoern A. Zeeb 1202added multi-IP jail support for IPv4 and IPv6 based on a patch 1203originally done by 1204.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek 1205for IPv4. 1206.Pp 1207.An James Gritton 1208added the extensible jail parameters, hierarchical jails, 1209and the configuration file. 1210.Sh BUGS 1211It might be a good idea to add an 1212address alias flag such that daemons listening on all IPs 1213.Pq Dv INADDR_ANY 1214will not bind on that address, which would facilitate building a safe 1215host environment such that host daemons do not impose on services offered 1216from within jails. 1217Currently, the simplest answer is to minimize services 1218offered on the host, possibly limiting it to services offered from 1219.Xr inetd 8 1220which is easily configurable. 1221.Sh NOTES 1222Great care should be taken when managing directories visible within the jail. 1223For example, if a jailed process has its current working directory set to a 1224directory that is moved out of the jail's chroot, then the process may gain 1225access to the file space outside of the jail. 1226It is recommended that directories always be copied, rather than moved, out 1227of a jail. 1228