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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 14, 2020 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.Nm 63.Op Fl f Ar conf_file 64.Fl e 65.Ar separator 66.Sh DESCRIPTION 67The 68.Nm 69utility creates new jails, or modifies or removes existing jails. 70It can also print a list of configured jails and their parameters. 71A jail 72.Pq or Dq prison 73is specified via parameters on the command line, or in the 74.Xr jail.conf 5 75file. 76.Pp 77At least one of the options 78.Fl c , 79.Fl e , 80.Fl m 81or 82.Fl r 83must be specified. 84These options are used alone or in combination to describe the operation to 85perform: 86.Bl -tag -width indent 87.It Fl c 88Create a new jail. 89The jail 90.Va jid 91and 92.Va name 93parameters (if specified on the command line) 94must not refer to an existing jail. 95.It Fl e Ar separator 96Exhibit a list of all configured non-wildcard jails and their parameters. 97No jail creation, modification or removal performed if this option is used. 98The 99.Ar separator 100string is used to separate parameters. 101Use 102.Xr jls 8 103utility to list running jails. 104.It Fl m 105Modify an existing jail. 106One of the 107.Va jid 108or 109.Va name 110parameters must exist and refer to an existing jail. 111Some parameters may not be changed on a running jail. 112.It Fl r 113Remove the 114.Ar jail 115specified by jid or name. 116All jailed processes are killed, and all jails that are 117children of this jail are also 118removed. 119.It Fl rc 120Restart an existing jail. 121The jail is first removed and then re-created, as if 122.Dq Nm Fl r 123and 124.Dq Nm Fl c 125were run in succession. 126.It Fl cm 127Create a jail if it does not exist, or modify the jail if it does exist. 128.It Fl mr 129Modify an existing jail. 130The jail may be restarted if necessary to modify parameters than could 131not otherwise be changed. 132.It Fl cmr 133Create a jail if it doesn't exist, or modify (and possibly restart) the 134jail if it does exist. 135.El 136.Pp 137Other available options are: 138.Bl -tag -width indent 139.It Fl d 140Allow making changes to a dying jail, equivalent to the 141.Va allow.dying 142parameter. 143.It Fl f Ar conf_file 144Use configuration file 145.Ar conf_file 146instead of the default 147.Pa /etc/jail.conf . 148.It Fl h 149Resolve the 150.Va host.hostname 151parameter (or 152.Va hostname ) 153and add all IP addresses returned by the resolver 154to the list of addresses for this jail. 155This is equivalent to the 156.Va ip_hostname 157parameter. 158.It Fl i 159Output (only) the jail identifier of the newly created jail(s). 160This implies the 161.Fl q 162option. 163.It Fl J Ar jid_file 164Write a 165.Ar jid_file 166file, containing the parameters used to start the jail. 167.It Fl l 168Run commands in a clean environment. 169This is deprecated and is equivalent to the exec.clean parameter. 170.It Fl n Ar jailname 171Set the jail's name. 172This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 173.Va name 174parameter. 175.It Fl p Ar limit 176Limit the number of commands from 177.Va exec.* 178that can run simultaneously. 179.It Fl q 180Suppress the message printed whenever a jail is created, modified or removed. 181Only error messages will be printed. 182.It Fl R 183A variation of the 184.Fl r 185option that removes an existing jail without using the configuration file. 186No removal-related parameters for this jail will be used \(em the jail will 187simply be removed. 188.It Fl s Ar securelevel 189Set the 190.Va kern.securelevel 191MIB entry to the specified value inside the newly created jail. 192This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 193.Va securelevel 194parameter. 195.It Fl u Ar username 196The user name from host environment as whom jailed commands should run. 197This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 198.Va exec.jail_user 199and 200.Va exec.system_jail_user 201parameters. 202.It Fl U Ar username 203The user name from the jailed environment as whom jailed commands should run. 204This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 205.Va exec.jail_user 206parameter. 207.It Fl v 208Print a message on every operation, such as running commands and 209mounting filesystems. 210.El 211.Pp 212If no arguments are given after the options, the operation (except 213remove) will be performed on all jails specified in the 214.Xr jail.conf 5 215file. 216A single argument of a jail name will operate only on the specified jail. 217The 218.Fl r 219and 220.Fl R 221options can also remove running jails that aren't in the 222.Xr jail.conf 5 223file, specified by name or jid. 224.Pp 225An argument of 226.Dq * 227is a wildcard that will operate on all jails, regardless of whether 228they appear in 229.Xr jail.conf 5 ; 230this is the surest way for 231.Fl r 232to remove all jails. 233If hierarchical jails exist, a partial-matching wildcard definition may 234be specified. 235For example, an argument of 236.Dq foo.* 237would apply to jails with names like 238.Dq foo.bar 239and 240.Dq foo.bar.baz . 241.Pp 242A jail may be specified with parameters directly on the command line. 243In this case, the 244.Xr jail.conf 5 245file will not be used. 246For backward compatibility, the command line may also have four fixed 247parameters, without names: 248.Ar path , 249.Ar hostname , 250.Ar ip , 251and 252.Ar command . 253This mode will always create a new jail, and the 254.Fl c 255and 256.Fl m 257options do not apply (and must not be present). 258.Ss Jail Parameters 259Parameters in the 260.Xr jail.conf 5 261file, or on the command line, are generally of the form 262.Dq name=value . 263Some parameters are boolean, and do not have a value but are set by the 264name alone with or without a 265.Dq no 266prefix, e.g. 267.Va persist 268or 269.Va nopersist . 270They can also be given the values 271.Dq true 272and 273.Dq false . 274Other parameters may have more than one value, specified as a 275comma-separated list or with 276.Dq += 277in the configuration file (see 278.Xr jail.conf 5 279for details). 280.Pp 281The 282.Nm 283utility recognizes two classes of parameters. 284There are the true jail 285parameters that are passed to the kernel when the jail is created, 286which can be seen with 287.Xr jls 8 , 288and can (usually) be changed with 289.Dq Nm Fl m . 290Then there are pseudo-parameters that are only used by 291.Nm 292itself. 293.Pp 294Jails have a set of core parameters, and kernel modules can add their own 295jail parameters. 296The current set of available parameters can be retrieved via 297.Dq Nm sysctl Fl d Va security.jail.param . 298Any parameters not set will be given default values, often based on the 299current environment. 300The core parameters are: 301.Bl -tag -width indent 302.It Va jid 303The jail identifier. 304This will be assigned automatically to a new jail (or can be explicitly 305set), and can be used to identify the jail for later modification, or 306for such commands as 307.Xr jls 8 308or 309.Xr jexec 8 . 310.It Va name 311The jail name. 312This is an arbitrary string that identifies a jail (except it may not 313contain a 314.Sq \&. ) . 315Like the 316.Va jid , 317it can be passed to later 318.Nm 319commands, or to 320.Xr jls 8 321or 322.Xr jexec 8 . 323If no 324.Va name 325is supplied, a default is assumed that is the same as the 326.Va jid . 327The 328.Va name 329parameter is implied by the 330.Xr jail.conf 5 331file format, and need not be explicitly set when using the configuration 332file. 333.It Va path 334The directory which is to be the root of the jail. 335Any commands run inside the jail, either by 336.Nm 337or from 338.Xr jexec 8 , 339are run from this directory. 340.It Va ip4.addr 341A list of IPv4 addresses assigned to the jail. 342If this is set, the jail is restricted to using only these addresses. 343Any attempts to use other addresses fail, and attempts to use wildcard 344addresses silently use the jailed address instead. 345For IPv4 the first address given will be used as the source address 346when source address selection on unbound sockets cannot find a better 347match. 348It is only possible to start multiple jails with the same IP address 349if none of the jails has more than this single overlapping IP address 350assigned to itself. 351.It Va ip4.saddrsel 352A boolean option to change the formerly mentioned behaviour and disable 353IPv4 source address selection for the jail in favour of the primary 354IPv4 address of the jail. 355Source address selection is enabled by default for all jails and the 356.Va ip4.nosaddrsel 357setting of a parent jail is not inherited for any child jails. 358.It Va ip4 359Control the availability of IPv4 addresses. 360Possible values are 361.Dq inherit 362to allow unrestricted access to all system addresses, 363.Dq new 364to restrict addresses via 365.Va ip4.addr , 366and 367.Dq disable 368to stop the jail from using IPv4 entirely. 369Setting the 370.Va ip4.addr 371parameter implies a value of 372.Dq new . 373.It Va ip6.addr , Va ip6.saddrsel , Va ip6 374A set of IPv6 options for the jail, the counterparts to 375.Va ip4.addr , 376.Va ip4.saddrsel 377and 378.Va ip4 379above. 380.It Va vnet 381Create the jail with its own virtual network stack, 382with its own network interfaces, addresses, routing table, etc. 383The kernel must have been compiled with the 384.Sy VIMAGE option 385for this to be available. 386Possible values are 387.Dq inherit 388to use the system network stack, possibly with restricted IP addresses, 389and 390.Dq new 391to create a new network stack. 392.It Va host.hostname 393The hostname of the jail. 394Other similar parameters are 395.Va host.domainname , 396.Va host.hostuuid 397and 398.Va host.hostid . 399.It Va host 400Set the origin of hostname and related information. 401Possible values are 402.Dq inherit 403to use the system information and 404.Dq new 405for the jail to use the information from the above fields. 406Setting any of the above fields implies a value of 407.Dq new . 408.It Va securelevel 409The value of the jail's 410.Va kern.securelevel 411sysctl. 412A jail never has a lower securelevel than its parent system, but by 413setting this parameter it may have a higher one. 414If the system securelevel is changed, any jail securelevels will be at 415least as secure. 416.It Va devfs_ruleset 417The number of the devfs ruleset that is enforced for mounting devfs in 418this jail. 419A value of zero (default) means no ruleset is enforced. 420Descendant jails inherit the parent jail's devfs ruleset enforcement. 421Mounting devfs inside a jail is possible only if the 422.Va allow.mount 423and 424.Va allow.mount.devfs 425permissions are effective and 426.Va enforce_statfs 427is set to a value lower than 2. 428Devfs rules and rulesets cannot be viewed or modified from inside a jail. 429.Pp 430NOTE: It is important that only appropriate device nodes in devfs be 431exposed to a jail; access to disk devices in the jail may permit processes 432in the jail to bypass the jail sandboxing by modifying files outside of 433the jail. 434See 435.Xr devfs 8 436for information on how to use devfs rules to limit access to entries 437in the per-jail devfs. 438A simple devfs ruleset for jails is available as ruleset #4 in 439.Pa /etc/defaults/devfs.rules . 440.It Va children.max 441The number of child jails allowed to be created by this jail (or by 442other jails under this jail). 443This limit is zero by default, indicating the jail is not allowed to 444create child jails. 445See the 446.Sx "Hierarchical Jails" 447section for more information. 448.It Va children.cur 449The number of descendants of this jail, including its own child jails 450and any jails created under them. 451.It Va enforce_statfs 452This determines what information processes in a jail are able to get 453about mount points. 454It affects the behaviour of the following syscalls: 455.Xr statfs 2 , 456.Xr fstatfs 2 , 457.Xr getfsstat 2 , 458and 459.Xr fhstatfs 2 460(as well as similar compatibility syscalls). 461When set to 0, all mount points are available without any restrictions. 462When set to 1, only mount points below the jail's chroot directory are 463visible. 464In addition to that, the path to the jail's chroot directory is removed 465from the front of their pathnames. 466When set to 2 (default), above syscalls can operate only on a mount-point 467where the jail's chroot directory is located. 468.It Va persist 469Setting this boolean parameter allows a jail to exist without any 470processes. 471Normally, a command is run as part of jail creation, and then the jail 472is destroyed as its last process exits. 473A new jail must have either the 474.Va persist 475parameter or 476.Va exec.start 477or 478.Va command 479pseudo-parameter set. 480.It Va cpuset.id 481The ID of the cpuset associated with this jail (read-only). 482.It Va dying 483This is true if the jail is in the process of shutting down (read-only). 484.It Va parent 485The 486.Va jid 487of the parent of this jail, or zero if this is a top-level jail 488(read-only). 489.It Va osrelease 490The string for the jail's 491.Va kern.osrelease 492sysctl and uname -r. 493.It Va osreldate 494The number for the jail's 495.Va kern.osreldate 496and uname -K. 497.It Va allow.* 498Some restrictions of the jail environment may be set on a per-jail 499basis. 500With the exception of 501.Va allow.set_hostname 502and 503.Va allow.reserved_ports , 504these boolean parameters are off by default. 505.Bl -tag -width indent 506.It Va allow.set_hostname 507The jail's hostname may be changed via 508.Xr hostname 1 509or 510.Xr sethostname 3 . 511.It Va allow.sysvipc 512A process within the jail has access to System V IPC primitives. 513This is deprecated in favor of the per-module parameters (see below). 514When this parameter is set, it is equivalent to setting 515.Va sysvmsg , 516.Va sysvsem , 517and 518.Va sysvshm 519all to 520.Dq inherit . 521.It Va allow.raw_sockets 522The jail root is allowed to create raw sockets. 523Setting this parameter allows utilities like 524.Xr ping 8 525and 526.Xr traceroute 8 527to operate inside the jail. 528If this is set, the source IP addresses are enforced to comply 529with the IP address bound to the jail, regardless of whether or not 530the 531.Dv IP_HDRINCL 532flag has been set on the socket. 533Since raw sockets can be used to configure and interact with various 534network subsystems, extra caution should be used where privileged access 535to jails is given out to untrusted parties. 536.It Va allow.chflags 537Normally, privileged users inside a jail are treated as unprivileged by 538.Xr chflags 2 . 539When this parameter is set, such users are treated as privileged, and 540may manipulate system file flags subject to the usual constraints on 541.Va kern.securelevel . 542.It Va allow.mount 543privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount file 544system types marked as jail-friendly. 545The 546.Xr lsvfs 1 547command can be used to find file system types available for mount from 548within a jail. 549This permission is effective only if 550.Va enforce_statfs 551is set to a value lower than 2. 552.It Va allow.mount.devfs 553privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 554devfs file system. 555This permission is effective only together with 556.Va allow.mount 557and only when 558.Va enforce_statfs 559is set to a value lower than 2. 560The devfs ruleset should be restricted from the default by using the 561.Va devfs_ruleset 562option. 563.It Va allow.quotas 564The jail root may administer quotas on the jail's filesystem(s). 565This includes filesystems that the jail may share with other jails or 566with non-jailed parts of the system. 567.It Va allow.read_msgbuf 568Jailed users may read the kernel message buffer. 569If the 570.Va security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf 571MIB entry is zero, this will be restricted to the root user. 572.It Va allow.socket_af 573Sockets within a jail are normally restricted to IPv4, IPv6, local 574(UNIX), and route. This allows access to other protocol stacks that 575have not had jail functionality added to them. 576.It Va allow.mlock 577Locking or unlocking physical pages in memory are normally not available 578within a jail. 579When this parameter is set, users may 580.Xr mlock 2 581or 582.Xr munlock 2 583memory subject to 584.Va security.bsd.unprivileged_mlock 585and resource limits. 586.It Va allow.reserved_ports 587The jail root may bind to ports lower than 1024. 588.It Va allow.unprivileged_proc_debug 589Unprivileged processes in the jail may use debugging facilities. 590.El 591.El 592.Pp 593Kernel modules may add their own parameters, which only exist when the 594module is loaded. 595These are typically headed under a parameter named after the module, 596with values of 597.Dq inherit 598to give the jail full use of the module, 599.Dq new 600to encapsulate the jail in some module-specific way, 601and 602.Dq disable 603to make the module unavailable to the jail. 604There also may be other parameters to define jail behavior within the module. 605Module-specific parameters include: 606.Bl -tag -width indent 607.It Va allow.mount.fdescfs 608privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 609fdescfs file system. 610This permission is effective only together with 611.Va allow.mount 612and only when 613.Va enforce_statfs 614is set to a value lower than 2. 615.It Va allow.mount.fusefs 616privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount 617fuse-based file systems. 618This permission is effective only together with 619.Va allow.mount 620and only when 621.Va enforce_statfs 622is set to a value lower than 2. 623.It Va allow.mount.nullfs 624privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 625nullfs file system. 626This permission is effective only together with 627.Va allow.mount 628and only when 629.Va enforce_statfs 630is set to a value lower than 2. 631.It Va allow.mount.procfs 632privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 633procfs file system. 634This permission is effective only together with 635.Va allow.mount 636and only when 637.Va enforce_statfs 638is set to a value lower than 2. 639.It Va allow.mount.linprocfs 640privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 641linprocfs file system. 642This permission is effective only together with 643.Va allow.mount 644and only when 645.Va enforce_statfs 646is set to a value lower than 2. 647.It Va allow.mount.linsysfs 648privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 649linsysfs file system. 650This permission is effective only together with 651.Va allow.mount 652and only when 653.Va enforce_statfs 654is set to a value lower than 2. 655.It Va allow.mount.tmpfs 656privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 657tmpfs file system. 658This permission is effective only together with 659.Va allow.mount 660and only when 661.Va enforce_statfs 662is set to a value lower than 2. 663.It Va allow.mount.zfs 664privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 665ZFS file system. 666This permission is effective only together with 667.Va allow.mount 668and only when 669.Va enforce_statfs 670is set to a value lower than 2. 671See 672.Xr zfs 8 673for information on how to configure the ZFS filesystem to operate from 674within a jail. 675.It Va allow.vmm 676The jail may access 677.Xr vmm 4 . 678This flag is only available when the 679.Xr vmm 4 680kernel module is loaded. 681.It Va linux 682Determine how a jail's Linux emulation environment appears. 683A value of 684.Dq inherit 685will keep the same environment, and 686.Dq new 687will give the jail its own environment (still originally inherited when 688the jail is created). 689.It Va linux.osname , linux.osrelease , linux.oss_version 690The Linux OS name, OS release, and OSS version associated with this jail. 691.It Va sysvmsg 692Allow access to SYSV IPC message primitives. 693If set to 694.Dq inherit , 695all IPC objects on the system are visible to this jail, whether they 696were created by the jail itself, the base system, or other jails. 697If set to 698.Dq new , 699the jail will have its own key namespace, and can only see the objects 700that it has created; 701the system (or parent jail) has access to the jail's objects, but not to 702its keys. 703If set to 704.Dq disable , 705the jail cannot perform any sysvmsg-related system calls. 706.It Va sysvsem, sysvshm 707Allow access to SYSV IPC semaphore and shared memory primitives, in the 708same manner as 709.Va sysvmsg. 710.El 711.Pp 712There are pseudo-parameters that are not passed to the kernel, but are 713used by 714.Nm 715to set up the jail environment, often by running specified commands 716when jails are created or removed. 717The 718.Va exec.* 719command parameters are 720.Xr sh 1 721command lines that are run in either the system or jail environment. 722They may be given multiple values, which would run the specified 723commands in sequence. 724All commands must succeed (return a zero exit status), or the jail will 725not be created or removed, as appropriate. 726.Pp 727The pseudo-parameters are: 728.Bl -tag -width indent 729.It Va exec.prepare 730Command(s) to run in the system environment to prepare a jail for creation. 731These commands are executed before assigning IP addresses and mounting 732filesystems, so they may be used to create a new jail filesystem if it does 733not already exist. 734.It Va exec.prestart 735Command(s) to run in the system environment before a jail is created. 736.It Va exec.created 737Command(s) to run in the system environment right after a jail has been 738created, but before commands (or services) get executed in the jail. 739.It Va exec.start 740Command(s) to run in the jail environment when a jail is created. 741A typical command to run is 742.Dq sh /etc/rc . 743.It Va command 744A synonym for 745.Va exec.start 746for use when specifying a jail directly on the command line. 747Unlike other parameters whose value is a single string, 748.Va command 749uses the remainder of the 750.Nm 751command line as its own arguments. 752.It Va exec.poststart 753Command(s) to run in the system environment after a jail is created, 754and after any 755.Va exec.start 756commands have completed. 757.It Va exec.prestop 758Command(s) to run in the system environment before a jail is removed. 759.It Va exec.stop 760Command(s) to run in the jail environment before a jail is removed, 761and after any 762.Va exec.prestop 763commands have completed. 764A typical command to run is 765.Dq sh /etc/rc.shutdown jail . 766.It Va exec.poststop 767Command(s) to run in the system environment after a jail is removed. 768.It Va exec.release 769Command(s) to run in the system environment after all other actions are done. 770These commands are executed after unmounting filesystems and removing IP 771addresses, so they may be used to remove a jail filesystem if it is no longer 772needed. 773.It Va exec.clean 774Run commands in a clean environment. 775The environment is discarded except for 776.Ev HOME , SHELL , TERM 777and 778.Ev USER . 779.Ev HOME 780and 781.Ev SHELL 782are set to the target login's default values. 783.Ev USER 784is set to the target login. 785.Ev TERM 786is imported from the current environment. 787The environment variables from the login class capability database for the 788target login are also set. 789.It Va exec.jail_user 790The user to run commands as, when running in the jail environment. 791The default is to run the commands as the current user. 792.It Va exec.system_jail_user 793This boolean option looks for the 794.Va exec.jail_user 795in the system 796.Xr passwd 5 797file, instead of in the jail's file. 798.It Va exec.system_user 799The user to run commands as, when running in the system environment. 800The default is to run the commands as the current user. 801.It Va exec.timeout 802The maximum amount of time to wait for a command to complete, in 803seconds. 804If a command is still running after this timeout has passed, 805the jail will not be created or removed, as appropriate. 806.It Va exec.consolelog 807A file to direct command output (stdout and stderr) to. 808.It Va exec.fib 809The FIB (routing table) to set when running commands inside the jail. 810.It Va stop.timeout 811The maximum amount of time to wait for a jail's processes to exit 812after sending them a 813.Dv SIGTERM 814signal (which happens after the 815.Va exec.stop 816commands have completed). 817After this many seconds have passed, the jail will be removed, which 818will kill any remaining processes. 819If this is set to zero, no 820.Dv SIGTERM 821is sent and the jail is immediately removed. 822The default is 10 seconds. 823.It Va interface 824A network interface to add the jail's IP addresses 825.Va ( ip4.addr 826and 827.Va ip6.addr ) 828to. 829An alias for each address will be added to the interface before the 830jail is created, and will be removed from the interface after the 831jail is removed. 832.It Va ip4.addr 833In addition to the IP addresses that are passed to the kernel, an 834interface, netmask and additional parameters (as supported by 835.Xr ifconfig 8 Ns ) 836may also be specified, in the form 837.Dq Ar interface Ns | Ns Ar ip-address Ns / Ns Ar netmask param ... . 838If an interface is given before the IP address, an alias for the address 839will be added to that interface, as it is with the 840.Va interface 841parameter. 842If a netmask in either dotted-quad or CIDR form is given 843after an IP address, it will be used when adding the IP alias. 844If additional parameters are specified then they will also be used when 845adding the IP alias. 846.It Va ip6.addr 847In addition to the IP addresses that are passed to the kernel, 848an interface, prefix and additional parameters (as supported by 849.Xr ifconfig 8 Ns ) 850may also be specified, in the form 851.Dq Ar interface Ns | Ns Ar ip-address Ns / Ns Ar prefix param ... . 852.It Va vnet.interface 853A network interface to give to a vnet-enabled jail after is it created. 854The interface will automatically be released when the jail is removed. 855.It Va ip_hostname 856Resolve the 857.Va host.hostname 858parameter and add all IP addresses returned by the resolver 859to the list of addresses 860.Po Va ip4.addr 861or 862.Va ip6.addr Pc 863for this jail. 864This may affect default address selection for outgoing IPv4 connections 865from jails. 866The address first returned by the resolver for each address family 867will be used as the primary address. 868.It Va mount 869A filesystem to mount before creating the jail (and to unmount after 870removing it), given as a single 871.Xr fstab 5 872line. 873.It Va mount.fstab 874An 875.Xr fstab 5 876format file containing filesystems to mount before creating a jail. 877.It Va mount.devfs 878Mount a 879.Xr devfs 5 880filesystem on the chrooted 881.Pa /dev 882directory, and apply the ruleset in the 883.Va devfs_ruleset 884parameter (or a default of ruleset 4: devfsrules_jail) 885to restrict the devices visible inside the jail. 886.It Va mount.fdescfs 887Mount a 888.Xr fdescfs 5 889filesystem on the chrooted 890.Pa /dev/fd 891directory. 892.It Va mount.procfs 893Mount a 894.Xr procfs 5 895filesystem on the chrooted 896.Pa /proc 897directory. 898.It Va allow.dying 899Allow making changes to a 900.Va dying 901jail. 902.It Va depend 903Specify a jail (or jails) that this jail depends on. 904When this jail is to be created, any jail(s) it depends on must already exist. 905If not, they will be created automatically, up to the completion of the last 906.Va exec.poststart 907command, before any action will taken to create this jail. 908When jails are removed the opposite is true: 909this jail will be removed, up to the last 910.Va exec.poststop 911command, before any jail(s) it depends on are stopped. 912.El 913.Sh EXAMPLES 914Jails are typically set up using one of two philosophies: either to 915constrain a specific application (possibly running with privilege), or 916to create a 917.Dq "virtual system image" 918running a variety of daemons and services. 919In both cases, a fairly complete file system install of 920.Fx 921is 922required, so as to provide the necessary command line tools, daemons, 923libraries, application configuration files, etc. 924However, for a virtual server configuration, a fair amount of 925additional work is required so as to replace the 926.Dq boot 927process. 928This manual page documents the configuration steps necessary to support 929either of these steps, although the configuration steps may need to be 930refined based on local requirements. 931.Ss "Setting up a Jail Directory Tree" 932To set up a jail directory tree containing an entire 933.Fx 934distribution, the following 935.Xr sh 1 936command script can be used: 937.Bd -literal 938D=/here/is/the/jail 939cd /usr/src 940mkdir -p $D 941make world DESTDIR=$D 942make distribution DESTDIR=$D 943.Ed 944.Pp 945In many cases this example would put far more in the jail than needed. 946In the other extreme case a jail might contain only one file: 947the executable to be run in the jail. 948.Pp 949We recommend experimentation, and caution that it is a lot easier to 950start with a 951.Dq fat 952jail and remove things until it stops working, 953than it is to start with a 954.Dq thin 955jail and add things until it works. 956.Ss "Setting Up a Jail" 957Do what was described in 958.Sx "Setting Up a Jail Directory Tree" 959to build the jail directory tree. 960For the sake of this example, we will 961assume you built it in 962.Pa /data/jail/testjail , 963for a jail named 964.Dq testjail . 965Substitute below as needed with your 966own directory, IP address, and hostname. 967.Ss "Setting up the Host Environment" 968First, set up the real system's environment to be 969.Dq jail-friendly . 970For consistency, we will refer to the parent box as the 971.Dq "host environment" , 972and to the jailed virtual machine as the 973.Dq "jail environment" . 974Since jails are implemented using IP aliases, one of the first things to do 975is to disable IP services on the host system that listen on all local 976IP addresses for a service. 977If a network service is present in the host environment that binds all 978available IP addresses rather than specific IP addresses, it may service 979requests sent to jail IP addresses if the jail did not bind the port. 980This means changing 981.Xr inetd 8 982to only listen on the 983appropriate IP address, and so forth. 984Add the following to 985.Pa /etc/rc.conf 986in the host environment: 987.Bd -literal -offset indent 988sendmail_enable="NO" 989inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.0.2.23" 990rpcbind_enable="NO" 991.Ed 992.Pp 993.Li 192.0.2.23 994is the native IP address for the host system, in this example. 995Daemons that run out of 996.Xr inetd 8 997can be easily configured to use only the specified host IP address. 998Other daemons 999will need to be manually configured \(em for some this is possible through 1000.Xr rc.conf 5 1001flags entries; for others it is necessary to modify per-application 1002configuration files, or to recompile the application. 1003The following frequently deployed services must have their individual 1004configuration files modified to limit the application to listening 1005to a specific IP address: 1006.Pp 1007To configure 1008.Xr sshd 8 , 1009it is necessary to modify 1010.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config . 1011.Pp 1012To configure 1013.Xr sendmail 8 , 1014it is necessary to modify 1015.Pa /etc/mail/sendmail.cf . 1016.Pp 1017For 1018.Xr named 8 , 1019it is necessary to modify 1020.Pa /etc/namedb/named.conf . 1021.Pp 1022In addition, a number of services must be recompiled in order to run 1023them in the host environment. 1024This includes most applications providing services using 1025.Xr rpc 3 , 1026such as 1027.Xr rpcbind 8 , 1028.Xr nfsd 8 , 1029and 1030.Xr mountd 8 . 1031In general, applications for which it is not possible to specify which 1032IP address to bind should not be run in the host environment unless they 1033should also service requests sent to jail IP addresses. 1034Attempting to serve 1035NFS from the host environment may also cause confusion, and cannot be 1036easily reconfigured to use only specific IPs, as some NFS services are 1037hosted directly from the kernel. 1038Any third-party network software running 1039in the host environment should also be checked and configured so that it 1040does not bind all IP addresses, which would result in those services also 1041appearing to be offered by the jail environments. 1042.Pp 1043Once 1044these daemons have been disabled or fixed in the host environment, it is 1045best to reboot so that all daemons are in a known state, to reduce the 1046potential for confusion later (such as finding that when you send mail 1047to a jail, and its sendmail is down, the mail is delivered to the host, 1048etc.). 1049.Ss "Configuring the Jail" 1050Start any jail for the first time without configuring the network 1051interface so that you can clean it up a little and set up accounts. 1052As 1053with any machine (virtual or not), you will need to set a root password, time 1054zone, etc. 1055Some of these steps apply only if you intend to run a full virtual server 1056inside the jail; others apply both for constraining a particular application 1057or for running a virtual server. 1058.Pp 1059Start a shell in the jail: 1060.Bd -literal -offset indent 1061jail -c path=/data/jail/testjail mount.devfs \\ 1062 host.hostname=testhostname ip4.addr=192.0.2.100 \\ 1063 command=/bin/sh 1064.Ed 1065.Pp 1066Assuming no errors, you will end up with a shell prompt within the jail. 1067You can now run 1068.Xr bsdconfig 8 1069and do the post-install configuration to set various configuration options, 1070or perform these actions manually by editing 1071.Pa /etc/rc.conf , 1072etc. 1073.Pp 1074.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact 1075.It 1076Configure 1077.Pa /etc/resolv.conf 1078so that name resolution within the jail will work correctly. 1079.It 1080Run 1081.Xr newaliases 1 1082to quell 1083.Xr sendmail 8 1084warnings. 1085.It 1086Set a root password, probably different from the real host system. 1087.It 1088Set the timezone. 1089.It 1090Add accounts for users in the jail environment. 1091.It 1092Install any packages the environment requires. 1093.El 1094.Pp 1095You may also want to perform any package-specific configuration (web servers, 1096SSH servers, etc), patch up 1097.Pa /etc/syslog.conf 1098so it logs as you would like, etc. 1099If you are not using a virtual server, you may wish to modify 1100.Xr syslogd 8 1101in the host environment to listen on the syslog socket in the jail 1102environment; in this example, the syslog socket would be stored in 1103.Pa /data/jail/testjail/var/run/log . 1104.Pp 1105Exit from the shell, and the jail will be shut down. 1106.Ss "Starting the Jail" 1107You are now ready to restart the jail and bring up the environment with 1108all of its daemons and other programs. 1109Create an entry for the jail in 1110.Pa /etc/jail.conf : 1111.Bd -literal -offset indent 1112testjail { 1113 path = /tmp/jail/testjail; 1114 mount.devfs; 1115 host.hostname = testhostname; 1116 ip4.addr = 192.0.2.100; 1117 interface = em0; 1118 exec.start = "/bin/sh /etc/rc"; 1119 exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown jail"; 1120} 1121.Ed 1122.Pp 1123To start a virtual server environment, 1124.Pa /etc/rc 1125is run to launch various daemons and services, and 1126.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown 1127is run to shut them down when the jail is removed. 1128If you are running a single application in the jail, 1129substitute the command used to start the application for 1130.Dq /bin/sh /etc/rc ; 1131there may be some script available to cleanly shut down the application, 1132or it may be sufficient to go without a stop command, and have 1133.Nm 1134send 1135.Dv SIGTERM 1136to the application. 1137.Pp 1138Start the jail by running: 1139.Bd -literal -offset indent 1140jail -c testjail 1141.Ed 1142.Pp 1143A few warnings may be produced; however, it should all work properly. 1144You should be able to see 1145.Xr inetd 8 , 1146.Xr syslogd 8 , 1147and other processes running within the jail using 1148.Xr ps 1 , 1149with the 1150.Ql J 1151flag appearing beside jailed processes. 1152To see an active list of jails, use 1153.Xr jls 8 . 1154If 1155.Xr sshd 8 1156is enabled in the jail environment, you should be able to 1157.Xr ssh 1 1158to the hostname or IP address of the jailed environment, and log 1159in using the accounts you created previously. 1160.Pp 1161It is possible to have jails started at boot time. 1162Please refer to the 1163.Dq jail_* 1164variables in 1165.Xr rc.conf 5 1166for more information. 1167.Ss "Managing the Jail" 1168Normal machine shutdown commands, such as 1169.Xr halt 8 , 1170.Xr reboot 8 , 1171and 1172.Xr shutdown 8 , 1173cannot be used successfully within the jail. 1174To kill all processes from within a jail, you may use one of the 1175following commands, depending on what you want to accomplish: 1176.Bd -literal -offset indent 1177kill -TERM -1 1178kill -KILL -1 1179.Ed 1180.Pp 1181This will send the 1182.Dv SIGTERM 1183or 1184.Dv SIGKILL 1185signals to all processes in the jail \(em be careful not to run this from 1186the host environment! 1187Once all of the jail's processes have died, unless the jail was created 1188with the 1189.Va persist 1190parameter, the jail will be removed. 1191Depending on 1192the intended use of the jail, you may also want to run 1193.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown 1194from within the jail. 1195.Pp 1196To shut down the jail from the outside, simply remove it with 1197.Nm 1198.Ar -r , 1199which will run any commands specified by 1200.Va exec.stop , 1201and then send 1202.Dv SIGTERM 1203and eventually 1204.Dv SIGKILL 1205to any remaining jailed processes. 1206.Pp 1207The 1208.Pa /proc/ Ns Ar pid Ns Pa /status 1209file contains, as its last field, the name of the jail in which the 1210process runs, or 1211.Dq Li - 1212to indicate that the process is not running within a jail. 1213The 1214.Xr ps 1 1215command also shows a 1216.Ql J 1217flag for processes in a jail. 1218.Pp 1219You can also list/kill processes based on their jail ID. 1220To show processes and their jail ID, use the following command: 1221.Pp 1222.Dl "ps ax -o pid,jid,args" 1223.Pp 1224To show and then kill processes in jail number 3 use the following commands: 1225.Bd -literal -offset indent 1226pgrep -lfj 3 1227pkill -j 3 1228.Ed 1229or: 1230.Pp 1231.Dl "killall -j 3" 1232.Ss "Jails and File Systems" 1233It is not possible to 1234.Xr mount 8 1235or 1236.Xr umount 8 1237any file system inside a jail unless the file system is marked 1238jail-friendly, the jail's 1239.Va allow.mount 1240parameter is set, and the jail's 1241.Va enforce_statfs 1242parameter is lower than 2. 1243.Pp 1244Multiple jails sharing the same file system can influence each other. 1245For example, a user in one jail can fill the file system, 1246leaving no space for processes in the other jail. 1247Trying to use 1248.Xr quota 1 1249to prevent this will not work either, as the file system quotas 1250are not aware of jails but only look at the user and group IDs. 1251This means the same user ID in two jails share a single file 1252system quota. 1253One would need to use one file system per jail to make this work. 1254.Ss "Sysctl MIB Entries" 1255The read-only entry 1256.Va security.jail.jailed 1257can be used to determine if a process is running inside a jail (value 1258is one) or not (value is zero). 1259.Pp 1260The variable 1261.Va security.jail.max_af_ips 1262determines how may address per address family a jail may have. 1263The default is 255. 1264.Pp 1265Some MIB variables have per-jail settings. 1266Changes to these variables by a jailed process do not affect the host 1267environment, only the jail environment. 1268These variables are 1269.Va kern.securelevel , 1270.Va kern.hostname , 1271.Va kern.domainname , 1272.Va kern.hostid , 1273and 1274.Va kern.hostuuid . 1275.Ss "Hierarchical Jails" 1276By setting a jail's 1277.Va children.max 1278parameter, processes within a jail may be able to create jails of their own. 1279These child jails are kept in a hierarchy, with jails only able to see and/or 1280modify the jails they created (or those jails' children). 1281Each jail has a read-only 1282.Va parent 1283parameter, containing the 1284.Va jid 1285of the jail that created it; a 1286.Va jid 1287of 0 indicates the jail is a child of the current jail (or is a top-level 1288jail if the current process isn't jailed). 1289.Pp 1290Jailed processes are not allowed to confer greater permissions than they 1291themselves are given, e.g., if a jail is created with 1292.Va allow.nomount , 1293it is not able to create a jail with 1294.Va allow.mount 1295set. 1296Similarly, such restrictions as 1297.Va ip4.addr 1298and 1299.Va securelevel 1300may not be bypassed in child jails. 1301.Pp 1302A child jail may in turn create its own child jails if its own 1303.Va children.max 1304parameter is set (remember it is zero by default). 1305These jails are visible to and can be modified by their parent and all 1306ancestors. 1307.Pp 1308Jail names reflect this hierarchy, with a full name being an MIB-type string 1309separated by dots. 1310For example, if a base system process creates a jail 1311.Dq foo , 1312and a process under that jail creates another jail 1313.Dq bar , 1314then the second jail will be seen as 1315.Dq foo.bar 1316in the base system (though it is only seen as 1317.Dq bar 1318to any processes inside jail 1319.Dq foo ) . 1320Jids on the other hand exist in a single space, and each jail must have a 1321unique jid. 1322.Pp 1323Like the names, a child jail's 1324.Va path 1325appears relative to its creator's own 1326.Va path . 1327This is by virtue of the child jail being created in the chrooted 1328environment of the first jail. 1329.Sh SEE ALSO 1330.Xr killall 1 , 1331.Xr lsvfs 1 , 1332.Xr newaliases 1 , 1333.Xr pgrep 1 , 1334.Xr pkill 1 , 1335.Xr ps 1 , 1336.Xr quota 1 , 1337.Xr jail_set 2 , 1338.Xr vmm 4 , 1339.Xr devfs 5 , 1340.Xr fdescfs 5 , 1341.Xr jail.conf 5 , 1342.Xr linprocfs 5 , 1343.Xr linsysfs 5 , 1344.Xr procfs 5 , 1345.Xr rc.conf 5 , 1346.Xr sysctl.conf 5 , 1347.Xr bsdconfig 8 , 1348.Xr chroot 8 , 1349.Xr devfs 8 , 1350.Xr halt 8 , 1351.Xr ifconfig 8 , 1352.Xr inetd 8 , 1353.Xr jexec 8 , 1354.Xr jls 8 , 1355.Xr mount 8 , 1356.Xr named 8 , 1357.Xr reboot 8 , 1358.Xr rpcbind 8 , 1359.Xr sendmail 8 , 1360.Xr shutdown 8 , 1361.Xr sysctl 8 , 1362.Xr syslogd 8 , 1363.Xr umount 8 1364.Sh HISTORY 1365The 1366.Nm 1367utility appeared in 1368.Fx 4.0 . 1369Hierarchical/extensible jails were introduced in 1370.Fx 8.0 . 1371The configuration file was introduced in 1372.Fx 9.1 . 1373.Sh AUTHORS 1374.An -nosplit 1375The jail feature was written by 1376.An Poul-Henning Kamp 1377for R&D Associates 1378who contributed it to 1379.Fx . 1380.Pp 1381.An Robert Watson 1382wrote the extended documentation, found a few bugs, added 1383a few new features, and cleaned up the userland jail environment. 1384.Pp 1385.An Bjoern A. Zeeb 1386added multi-IP jail support for IPv4 and IPv6 based on a patch 1387originally done by 1388.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek 1389for IPv4. 1390.Pp 1391.An James Gritton 1392added the extensible jail parameters, hierarchical jails, 1393and the configuration file. 1394.Sh BUGS 1395It might be a good idea to add an 1396address alias flag such that daemons listening on all IPs 1397.Pq Dv INADDR_ANY 1398will not bind on that address, which would facilitate building a safe 1399host environment such that host daemons do not impose on services offered 1400from within jails. 1401Currently, the simplest answer is to minimize services 1402offered on the host, possibly limiting it to services offered from 1403.Xr inetd 8 1404which is easily configurable. 1405.Sh NOTES 1406Great care should be taken when managing directories visible within the jail. 1407For example, if a jailed process has its current working directory set to a 1408directory that is moved out of the jail's chroot, then the process may gain 1409access to the file space outside of the jail. 1410It is recommended that directories always be copied, rather than moved, out 1411of a jail. 1412.Pp 1413In addition, there are several ways in which an unprivileged user 1414outside the jail can cooperate with a privileged user inside the jail 1415and thereby obtain elevated privileges in the host environment. 1416Most of these attacks can be mitigated by ensuring that the jail root 1417is not accessible to unprivileged users in the host environment. 1418Regardless, as a general rule, untrusted users with privileged access 1419to a jail should not be given access to the host environment. 1420