1.\" Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 Robert N. M. Watson 2.\" Copyright (c) 2008-2012 James Gritton 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. 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 July 18, 2022 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.Ar path hostname ip Ns Op Cm \&, Ns Ar ... 62.Ar command ... 63.Nm 64.Op Fl f Ar conf_file 65.Fl e 66.Ar separator 67.Sh DESCRIPTION 68The 69.Nm 70utility creates new jails, or modifies or removes existing jails. 71It can also print a list of configured jails and their parameters. 72A jail 73.Pq or Dq prison 74is specified via parameters on the command line, or in the 75.Xr jail.conf 5 76file. 77.Pp 78At least one of the options 79.Fl c , 80.Fl e , 81.Fl m 82or 83.Fl r 84must be specified. 85These options are used alone or in combination to describe the operation to 86perform: 87.Bl -tag -width indent 88.It Fl c 89Create a new jail. 90The jail 91.Va jid 92and 93.Va name 94parameters (if specified on the command line) 95must not refer to an existing jail. 96.It Fl e Ar separator 97Exhibit a list of all configured non-wildcard jails and their parameters. 98No jail creation, modification or removal performed if this option is used. 99The 100.Ar separator 101string is used to separate parameters. 102Use 103.Xr jls 8 104utility to list running jails. 105.It Fl m 106Modify an existing jail. 107One of the 108.Va jid 109or 110.Va name 111parameters must exist and refer to an existing jail. 112Some parameters may not be changed on a running jail. 113.It Fl r 114Remove the 115.Ar jail 116specified by jid or name. 117All jailed processes are killed, and all jails that are 118children of this jail are also 119removed. 120.It Fl rc 121Restart an existing jail. 122The jail is first removed and then re-created, as if 123.Dq Nm Fl r 124and 125.Dq Nm Fl c 126were run in succession. 127.It Fl cm 128Create a jail if it does not exist, or modify the jail if it does exist. 129.It Fl mr 130Modify an existing jail. 131The jail may be restarted if necessary to modify parameters than could 132not otherwise be changed. 133.It Fl cmr 134Create a jail if it doesn't exist, or modify (and possibly restart) the 135jail if it does exist. 136.El 137.Pp 138Other available options are: 139.Bl -tag -width indent 140.It Fl d 141Allow making changes to a dying jail, equivalent to the 142.Va allow.dying 143parameter. 144.It Fl f Ar conf_file 145Use configuration file 146.Ar conf_file 147instead of the default 148.Pa /etc/jail.conf . 149.It Fl h 150Resolve the 151.Va host.hostname 152parameter (or 153.Va hostname ) 154and add all IP addresses returned by the resolver 155to the list of addresses for this jail. 156This is equivalent to the 157.Va ip_hostname 158parameter. 159.It Fl i 160Output (only) the jail identifier of the newly created jail(s). 161This implies the 162.Fl q 163option. 164.It Fl J Ar jid_file 165Write a 166.Ar jid_file 167file, containing the parameters used to start the jail. 168.It Fl l 169Run commands in a clean environment. 170This is deprecated and is equivalent to the exec.clean parameter. 171.It Fl n Ar jailname 172Set the jail's name. 173This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 174.Va name 175parameter. 176.It Fl p Ar limit 177Limit the number of commands from 178.Va exec.* 179that can run simultaneously. 180.It Fl q 181Suppress the message printed whenever a jail is created, modified or removed. 182Only error messages will be printed. 183.It Fl R 184A variation of the 185.Fl r 186option that removes an existing jail without using the configuration file. 187No removal-related parameters for this jail will be used \(em the jail will 188simply be removed. 189.It Fl s Ar securelevel 190Set the 191.Va kern.securelevel 192MIB entry to the specified value inside the newly created jail. 193This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 194.Va securelevel 195parameter. 196.It Fl u Ar username 197The user name from host environment as whom jailed commands should run. 198This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 199.Va exec.jail_user 200and 201.Va exec.system_jail_user 202parameters. 203.It Fl U Ar username 204The user name from the jailed environment as whom jailed commands should run. 205This is deprecated and is equivalent to the 206.Va exec.jail_user 207parameter. 208.It Fl v 209Print a message on every operation, such as running commands and 210mounting filesystems. 211.El 212.Pp 213If no arguments are given after the options, the operation (except 214remove) will be performed on all jails specified in the 215.Xr jail.conf 5 216file. 217A single argument of a jail name will operate only on the specified jail. 218The 219.Fl r 220and 221.Fl R 222options can also remove running jails that aren't in the 223.Xr jail.conf 5 224file, specified by name or jid. 225.Pp 226An argument of 227.Dq * 228is a wildcard that will operate on all jails, regardless of whether 229they appear in 230.Xr jail.conf 5 ; 231this is the surest way for 232.Fl r 233to remove all jails. 234If hierarchical jails exist, a partial-matching wildcard definition may 235be specified. 236For example, an argument of 237.Dq foo.* 238would apply to jails with names like 239.Dq foo.bar 240and 241.Dq foo.bar.baz . 242.Pp 243A jail may be specified with parameters directly on the command line. 244In this case, the 245.Xr jail.conf 5 246file will not be used. 247For backward compatibility, the command line may also have four fixed 248parameters, without names: 249.Ar path , 250.Ar hostname , 251.Ar ip , 252and 253.Ar command . 254This mode will always create a new jail, and the 255.Fl c 256and 257.Fl m 258options do not apply (and must not be present). 259.Ss Jail Parameters 260Parameters in the 261.Xr jail.conf 5 262file, or on the command line, are generally of the form 263.Dq name=value . 264Some parameters are boolean, and do not have a value but are set by the 265name alone with or without a 266.Dq no 267prefix, e.g. 268.Va persist 269or 270.Va nopersist . 271They can also be given the values 272.Dq true 273and 274.Dq false . 275Other parameters may have more than one value, specified as a 276comma-separated list or with 277.Dq += 278in the configuration file (see 279.Xr jail.conf 5 280for details). 281.Pp 282The 283.Nm 284utility recognizes two classes of parameters. 285There are the true jail 286parameters that are passed to the kernel when the jail is created, 287which can be seen with 288.Xr jls 8 , 289and can (usually) be changed with 290.Dq Nm Fl m . 291Then there are pseudo-parameters that are only used by 292.Nm 293itself. 294.Pp 295Jails have a set of core parameters, and kernel modules can add their own 296jail parameters. 297The current set of available parameters can be retrieved via 298.Dq Nm sysctl Fl d Va security.jail.param . 299Any parameters not set will be given default values, often based on the 300current environment. 301The core parameters are: 302.Bl -tag -width indent 303.It Va jid 304The jail identifier. 305This will be assigned automatically to a new jail (or can be explicitly 306set), and can be used to identify the jail for later modification, or 307for such commands as 308.Xr jls 8 309or 310.Xr jexec 8 . 311.It Va name 312The jail name. 313This is an arbitrary string that identifies a jail (except it may not 314contain a 315.Sq \&. ) . 316Like the 317.Va jid , 318it can be passed to later 319.Nm 320commands, or to 321.Xr jls 8 322or 323.Xr jexec 8 . 324If no 325.Va name 326is supplied, a default is assumed that is the same as the 327.Va jid . 328The 329.Va name 330parameter is implied by the 331.Xr jail.conf 5 332file format, and need not be explicitly set when using the configuration 333file. 334.It Va path 335The directory which is to be the root of the jail. 336Any commands run inside the jail, either by 337.Nm 338or from 339.Xr jexec 8 , 340are run from this directory. 341.It Va ip4.addr 342A list of IPv4 addresses assigned to the jail. 343If this is set, the jail is restricted to using only these addresses. 344Any attempts to use other addresses fail, and attempts to use wildcard 345addresses silently use the jailed address instead. 346For IPv4 the first address given will be used as the source address 347when source address selection on unbound sockets cannot find a better 348match. 349It is only possible to start multiple jails with the same IP address 350if none of the jails has more than this single overlapping IP address 351assigned to itself. 352.It Va ip4.saddrsel 353A boolean option to change the formerly mentioned behaviour and disable 354IPv4 source address selection for the jail in favour of the primary 355IPv4 address of the jail. 356Source address selection is enabled by default for all jails and the 357.Va ip4.nosaddrsel 358setting of a parent jail is not inherited for any child jails. 359.It Va ip4 360Control the availability of IPv4 addresses. 361Possible values are 362.Dq inherit 363to allow unrestricted access to all system addresses, 364.Dq new 365to restrict addresses via 366.Va ip4.addr , 367and 368.Dq disable 369to stop the jail from using IPv4 entirely. 370Setting the 371.Va ip4.addr 372parameter implies a value of 373.Dq new . 374.It Va ip6.addr , Va ip6.saddrsel , Va ip6 375A set of IPv6 options for the jail, the counterparts to 376.Va ip4.addr , 377.Va ip4.saddrsel 378and 379.Va ip4 380above. 381.It Va vnet 382Create the jail with its own virtual network stack, 383with its own network interfaces, addresses, routing table, etc. 384The kernel must have been compiled with the 385.Sy VIMAGE option 386for this to be available. 387Possible values are 388.Dq inherit 389to use the system network stack, possibly with restricted IP addresses, 390and 391.Dq new 392to create a new network stack. 393.It Va host.hostname 394The hostname of the jail. 395Other similar parameters are 396.Va host.domainname , 397.Va host.hostuuid 398and 399.Va host.hostid . 400.It Va host 401Set the origin of hostname and related information. 402Possible values are 403.Dq inherit 404to use the system information and 405.Dq new 406for the jail to use the information from the above fields. 407Setting any of the above fields implies a value of 408.Dq new . 409.It Va securelevel 410The value of the jail's 411.Va kern.securelevel 412sysctl. 413A jail never has a lower securelevel than its parent system, but by 414setting this parameter it may have a higher one. 415If the system securelevel is changed, any jail securelevels will be at 416least as secure. 417.It Va devfs_ruleset 418The number of the devfs ruleset that is enforced for mounting devfs in 419this jail. 420A value of zero (default) means no ruleset is enforced. 421Descendant jails inherit the parent jail's devfs ruleset enforcement. 422Mounting devfs inside a jail is possible only if the 423.Va allow.mount 424and 425.Va allow.mount.devfs 426permissions are effective and 427.Va enforce_statfs 428is set to a value lower than 2. 429Devfs rules and rulesets cannot be viewed or modified from inside a jail. 430.Pp 431NOTE: It is important that only appropriate device nodes in devfs be 432exposed to a jail; access to disk devices in the jail may permit processes 433in the jail to bypass the jail sandboxing by modifying files outside of 434the jail. 435See 436.Xr devfs 8 437for information on how to use devfs rules to limit access to entries 438in the per-jail devfs. 439A simple devfs ruleset for jails is available as ruleset #4 in 440.Pa /etc/defaults/devfs.rules . 441.It Va children.max 442The number of child jails allowed to be created by this jail (or by 443other jails under this jail). 444This limit is zero by default, indicating the jail is not allowed to 445create child jails. 446See the 447.Sx "Hierarchical Jails" 448section for more information. 449.It Va children.cur 450The number of descendants of this jail, including its own child jails 451and any jails created under them. 452.It Va enforce_statfs 453This determines what information processes in a jail are able to get 454about mount points. 455It affects the behaviour of the following syscalls: 456.Xr statfs 2 , 457.Xr fstatfs 2 , 458.Xr getfsstat 2 , 459and 460.Xr fhstatfs 2 461(as well as similar compatibility syscalls). 462When set to 0, all mount points are available without any restrictions. 463When set to 1, only mount points below the jail's chroot directory are 464visible. 465In addition to that, the path to the jail's chroot directory is removed 466from the front of their pathnames. 467When set to 2 (default), above syscalls can operate only on a mount-point 468where the jail's chroot directory is located. 469.It Va persist 470Setting this boolean parameter allows a jail to exist without any 471processes. 472Normally, a command is run as part of jail creation, and then the jail 473is destroyed as its last process exits. 474A new jail must have either the 475.Va persist 476parameter or 477.Va exec.start 478or 479.Va command 480pseudo-parameter set. 481.It Va cpuset.id 482The ID of the cpuset associated with this jail (read-only). 483.It Va dying 484This is true if the jail is in the process of shutting down (read-only). 485.It Va parent 486The 487.Va jid 488of the parent of this jail, or zero if this is a top-level jail 489(read-only). 490.It Va osrelease 491The string for the jail's 492.Va kern.osrelease 493sysctl and uname -r. 494.It Va osreldate 495The number for the jail's 496.Va kern.osreldate 497and uname -K. 498.It Va allow.* 499Some restrictions of the jail environment may be set on a per-jail 500basis. 501With the exception of 502.Va allow.set_hostname 503and 504.Va allow.reserved_ports , 505these boolean parameters are off by default. 506.Bl -tag -width indent 507.It Va allow.set_hostname 508The jail's hostname may be changed via 509.Xr hostname 1 510or 511.Xr sethostname 3 . 512.It Va allow.sysvipc 513A process within the jail has access to System V IPC primitives. 514This is deprecated in favor of the per-module parameters (see below). 515When this parameter is set, it is equivalent to setting 516.Va sysvmsg , 517.Va sysvsem , 518and 519.Va sysvshm 520all to 521.Dq inherit . 522.It Va allow.raw_sockets 523The jail root is allowed to create raw sockets. 524Setting this parameter allows utilities like 525.Xr ping 8 526and 527.Xr traceroute 8 528to operate inside the jail. 529If this is set, the source IP addresses are enforced to comply 530with the IP address bound to the jail, regardless of whether or not 531the 532.Dv IP_HDRINCL 533flag has been set on the socket. 534Since raw sockets can be used to configure and interact with various 535network subsystems, extra caution should be used where privileged access 536to jails is given out to untrusted parties. 537.It Va allow.chflags 538Normally, privileged users inside a jail are treated as unprivileged by 539.Xr chflags 2 . 540When this parameter is set, such users are treated as privileged, and 541may manipulate system file flags subject to the usual constraints on 542.Va kern.securelevel . 543.It Va allow.mount 544privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount file 545system types marked as jail-friendly. 546The 547.Xr lsvfs 1 548command can be used to find file system types available for mount from 549within a jail. 550This permission is effective only if 551.Va enforce_statfs 552is set to a value lower than 2. 553.It Va allow.mount.devfs 554privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 555devfs file system. 556This permission is effective only together with 557.Va allow.mount 558and only when 559.Va enforce_statfs 560is set to a value lower than 2. 561The devfs ruleset should be restricted from the default by using the 562.Va devfs_ruleset 563option. 564.It Va allow.quotas 565The jail root may administer quotas on the jail's filesystem(s). 566This includes filesystems that the jail may share with other jails or 567with non-jailed parts of the system. 568.It Va allow.read_msgbuf 569Jailed users may read the kernel message buffer. 570If the 571.Va security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf 572MIB entry is zero, this will be restricted to the root user. 573.It Va allow.socket_af 574Sockets within a jail are normally restricted to IPv4, IPv6, local 575(UNIX), and route. This allows access to other protocol stacks that 576have not had jail functionality added to them. 577.It Va allow.mlock 578Locking or unlocking physical pages in memory are normally not available 579within a jail. 580When this parameter is set, users may 581.Xr mlock 2 582or 583.Xr munlock 2 584memory subject to 585.Va security.bsd.unprivileged_mlock 586and resource limits. 587.It Va allow.reserved_ports 588The jail root may bind to ports lower than 1024. 589.It Va allow.unprivileged_proc_debug 590Unprivileged processes in the jail may use debugging facilities. 591.It Va allow.suser 592The value of the jail's 593.Va security.bsd.suser_enabled 594sysctl. 595The super-user will be disabled automatically if its parent system has it 596disabled. 597The super-user is enabled by default. 598.El 599.El 600.Pp 601Kernel modules may add their own parameters, which only exist when the 602module is loaded. 603These are typically headed under a parameter named after the module, 604with values of 605.Dq inherit 606to give the jail full use of the module, 607.Dq new 608to encapsulate the jail in some module-specific way, 609and 610.Dq disable 611to make the module unavailable to the jail. 612There also may be other parameters to define jail behavior within the module. 613Module-specific parameters include: 614.Bl -tag -width indent 615.It Va allow.mount.fdescfs 616privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 617fdescfs file system. 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.fusefs 624privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount 625fuse-based file systems. 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.nullfs 632privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 633nullfs 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.procfs 640privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 641procfs 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.linprocfs 648privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 649linprocfs 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.linsysfs 656privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 657linsysfs 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.tmpfs 664privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 665tmpfs 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. 671.It Va allow.mount.zfs 672privileged users inside the jail will be able to mount and unmount the 673ZFS file system. 674This permission is effective only together with 675.Va allow.mount 676and only when 677.Va enforce_statfs 678is set to a value lower than 2. 679See 680.Xr zfs 8 681for information on how to configure the ZFS filesystem to operate from 682within a jail. 683.It Va allow.vmm 684The jail may access 685.Xr vmm 4 . 686This flag is only available when the 687.Xr vmm 4 688kernel module is loaded. 689.It Va linux 690Determine how a jail's Linux emulation environment appears. 691A value of 692.Dq inherit 693will keep the same environment, and 694.Dq new 695will give the jail its own environment (still originally inherited when 696the jail is created). 697.It Va linux.osname , linux.osrelease , linux.oss_version 698The Linux OS name, OS release, and OSS version associated with this jail. 699.It Va sysvmsg 700Allow access to SYSV IPC message primitives. 701If set to 702.Dq inherit , 703all IPC objects on the system are visible to this jail, whether they 704were created by the jail itself, the base system, or other jails. 705If set to 706.Dq new , 707the jail will have its own key namespace, and can only see the objects 708that it has created; 709the system (or parent jail) has access to the jail's objects, but not to 710its keys. 711If set to 712.Dq disable , 713the jail cannot perform any sysvmsg-related system calls. 714.It Va sysvsem, sysvshm 715Allow access to SYSV IPC semaphore and shared memory primitives, in the 716same manner as 717.Va sysvmsg. 718.El 719.Pp 720There are pseudo-parameters that are not passed to the kernel, but are 721used by 722.Nm 723to set up the jail environment, often by running specified commands 724when jails are created or removed. 725The 726.Va exec.* 727command parameters are 728.Xr sh 1 729command lines that are run in either the system or jail environment. 730They may be given multiple values, which would run the specified 731commands in sequence. 732All commands must succeed (return a zero exit status), or the jail will 733not be created or removed, as appropriate. 734.Pp 735The pseudo-parameters are: 736.Bl -tag -width indent 737.It Va exec.prepare 738Command(s) to run in the system environment to prepare a jail for creation. 739These commands are executed before assigning IP addresses and mounting 740filesystems, so they may be used to create a new jail filesystem if it does 741not already exist. 742.It Va exec.prestart 743Command(s) to run in the system environment before a jail is created. 744.It Va exec.created 745Command(s) to run in the system environment right after a jail has been 746created, but before commands (or services) get executed in the jail. 747.It Va exec.start 748Command(s) to run in the jail environment when a jail is created. 749A typical command to run is 750.Dq sh /etc/rc . 751.It Va command 752A synonym for 753.Va exec.start 754for use when specifying a jail directly on the command line. 755Unlike other parameters whose value is a single string, 756.Va command 757uses the remainder of the 758.Nm 759command line as its own arguments. 760.It Va exec.poststart 761Command(s) to run in the system environment after a jail is created, 762and after any 763.Va exec.start 764commands have completed. 765.It Va exec.prestop 766Command(s) to run in the system environment before a jail is removed. 767.It Va exec.stop 768Command(s) to run in the jail environment before a jail is removed, 769and after any 770.Va exec.prestop 771commands have completed. 772A typical command to run is 773.Dq sh /etc/rc.shutdown jail . 774.It Va exec.poststop 775Command(s) to run in the system environment after a jail is removed. 776.It Va exec.release 777Command(s) to run in the system environment after all other actions are done. 778These commands are executed after unmounting filesystems and removing IP 779addresses, so they may be used to remove a jail filesystem if it is no longer 780needed. 781.It Va exec.clean 782Run commands in a clean environment. 783The environment is discarded except for 784.Ev HOME , SHELL , TERM 785and 786.Ev USER . 787.Ev HOME 788and 789.Ev SHELL 790are set to the target login's default values. 791.Ev USER 792is set to the target login. 793.Ev TERM 794is imported from the current environment. 795The environment variables from the login class capability database for the 796target login are also set. 797.It Va exec.jail_user 798The user to run commands as, when running in the jail environment. 799The default is to run the commands as the current user. 800.It Va exec.system_jail_user 801This boolean option looks for the 802.Va exec.jail_user 803in the system 804.Xr passwd 5 805file, instead of in the jail's file. 806.It Va exec.system_user 807The user to run commands as, when running in the system environment. 808The default is to run the commands as the current user. 809.It Va exec.timeout 810The maximum amount of time to wait for a command to complete, in 811seconds. 812If a command is still running after this timeout has passed, 813the jail will not be created or removed, as appropriate. 814.It Va exec.consolelog 815A file to direct command output (stdout and stderr) to. 816.It Va exec.fib 817The FIB (routing table) to set when running commands inside the jail. 818.It Va stop.timeout 819The maximum amount of time to wait for a jail's processes to exit 820after sending them a 821.Dv SIGTERM 822signal (which happens after the 823.Va exec.stop 824commands have completed). 825After this many seconds have passed, the jail will be removed, which 826will kill any remaining processes. 827If this is set to zero, no 828.Dv SIGTERM 829is sent and the jail is immediately removed. 830The default is 10 seconds. 831.It Va interface 832A network interface to add the jail's IP addresses 833.Va ( ip4.addr 834and 835.Va ip6.addr ) 836to. 837An alias for each address will be added to the interface before the 838jail is created, and will be removed from the interface after the 839jail is removed. 840.It Va ip4.addr 841In addition to the IP addresses that are passed to the kernel, an 842interface, netmask and additional parameters (as supported by 843.Xr ifconfig 8 Ns ) 844may also be specified, in the form 845.Dq Ar interface Ns | Ns Ar ip-address Ns / Ns Ar netmask param ... . 846If an interface is given before the IP address, an alias for the address 847will be added to that interface, as it is with the 848.Va interface 849parameter. 850If a netmask in either dotted-quad or CIDR form is given 851after an IP address, it will be used when adding the IP alias. 852If additional parameters are specified then they will also be used when 853adding the IP alias. 854.It Va ip6.addr 855In addition to the IP addresses that are passed to the kernel, 856an interface, prefix and additional parameters (as supported by 857.Xr ifconfig 8 Ns ) 858may also be specified, in the form 859.Dq Ar interface Ns | Ns Ar ip-address Ns / Ns Ar prefix param ... . 860.It Va vnet.interface 861A network interface to give to a vnet-enabled jail after is it created. 862The interface will automatically be released when the jail is removed. 863.It Va ip_hostname 864Resolve the 865.Va host.hostname 866parameter and add all IP addresses returned by the resolver 867to the list of addresses 868.Po Va ip4.addr 869or 870.Va ip6.addr Pc 871for this jail. 872This may affect default address selection for outgoing IPv4 connections 873from jails. 874The address first returned by the resolver for each address family 875will be used as the primary address. 876.It Va mount 877A filesystem to mount before creating the jail (and to unmount after 878removing it), given as a single 879.Xr fstab 5 880line. 881.It Va mount.fstab 882An 883.Xr fstab 5 884format file containing filesystems to mount before creating a jail. 885.It Va mount.devfs 886Mount a 887.Xr devfs 5 888filesystem on the chrooted 889.Pa /dev 890directory, and apply the ruleset in the 891.Va devfs_ruleset 892parameter (or a default of ruleset 4: devfsrules_jail) 893to restrict the devices visible inside the jail. 894.It Va mount.fdescfs 895Mount a 896.Xr fdescfs 5 897filesystem on the chrooted 898.Pa /dev/fd 899directory. 900.It Va mount.procfs 901Mount a 902.Xr procfs 5 903filesystem on the chrooted 904.Pa /proc 905directory. 906.It Va allow.dying 907Allow making changes to a 908.Va dying 909jail. 910.It Va depend 911Specify a jail (or jails) that this jail depends on. 912When this jail is to be created, any jail(s) it depends on must already exist. 913If not, they will be created automatically, up to the completion of the last 914.Va exec.poststart 915command, before any action will taken to create this jail. 916When jails are removed the opposite is true: 917this jail will be removed, up to the last 918.Va exec.poststop 919command, before any jail(s) it depends on are stopped. 920.El 921.Sh EXAMPLES 922Jails are typically set up using one of two philosophies: either to 923constrain a specific application (possibly running with privilege), or 924to create a 925.Dq "virtual system image" 926running a variety of daemons and services. 927In both cases, a fairly complete file system install of 928.Fx 929is 930required, so as to provide the necessary command line tools, daemons, 931libraries, application configuration files, etc. 932However, for a virtual server configuration, a fair amount of 933additional work is required so as to replace the 934.Dq boot 935process. 936This manual page documents the configuration steps necessary to support 937either of these steps, although the configuration steps may need to be 938refined based on local requirements. 939.Ss "Setting up a Jail Directory Tree" 940To set up a jail directory tree containing an entire 941.Fx 942distribution, the following 943.Xr sh 1 944command script can be used: 945.Bd -literal -offset indent 946D=/here/is/the/jail 947cd /usr/src 948mkdir -p $D 949make world DESTDIR=$D 950make distribution DESTDIR=$D 951.Ed 952.Pp 953In many cases this example would put far more in the jail than needed. 954In the other extreme case a jail might contain only one file: 955the executable to be run in the jail. 956.Pp 957We recommend experimentation, and caution that it is a lot easier to 958start with a 959.Dq fat 960jail and remove things until it stops working, 961than it is to start with a 962.Dq thin 963jail and add things until it works. 964.Ss "Setting Up a Jail" 965Do what was described in 966.Sx "Setting Up a Jail Directory Tree" 967to build the jail directory tree. 968For the sake of this example, we will 969assume you built it in 970.Pa /data/jail/testjail , 971for a jail named 972.Dq testjail . 973Substitute below as needed with your 974own directory, IP address, and hostname. 975.Ss "Setting up the Host Environment" 976First, set up the real system's environment to be 977.Dq jail-friendly . 978For consistency, we will refer to the parent box as the 979.Dq "host environment" , 980and to the jailed virtual machine as the 981.Dq "jail environment" . 982Since jails are implemented using IP aliases, one of the first things to do 983is to disable IP services on the host system that listen on all local 984IP addresses for a service. 985If a network service is present in the host environment that binds all 986available IP addresses rather than specific IP addresses, it may service 987requests sent to jail IP addresses if the jail did not bind the port. 988This means changing 989.Xr inetd 8 990to only listen on the 991appropriate IP address, and so forth. 992Add the following to 993.Pa /etc/rc.conf 994in the host environment: 995.Bd -literal -offset indent 996sendmail_enable="NO" 997inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.0.2.23" 998rpcbind_enable="NO" 999.Ed 1000.Pp 1001.Li 192.0.2.23 1002is the native IP address for the host system, in this example. 1003Daemons that run out of 1004.Xr inetd 8 1005can be easily configured to use only the specified host IP address. 1006Other daemons 1007will need to be manually configured \(em for some this is possible through 1008.Xr rc.conf 5 1009flags entries; for others it is necessary to modify per-application 1010configuration files, or to recompile the application. 1011The following frequently deployed services must have their individual 1012configuration files modified to limit the application to listening 1013to a specific IP address: 1014.Pp 1015To configure 1016.Xr sshd 8 , 1017it is necessary to modify 1018.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config . 1019.Pp 1020To configure 1021.Xr sendmail 8 , 1022it is necessary to modify 1023.Pa /etc/mail/sendmail.cf . 1024.Pp 1025In addition, a number of services must be recompiled in order to run 1026them in the host environment. 1027This includes most applications providing services using 1028.Xr rpc 3 , 1029such as 1030.Xr rpcbind 8 , 1031.Xr nfsd 8 , 1032and 1033.Xr mountd 8 . 1034In general, applications for which it is not possible to specify which 1035IP address to bind should not be run in the host environment unless they 1036should also service requests sent to jail IP addresses. 1037Attempting to serve 1038NFS from the host environment may also cause confusion, and cannot be 1039easily reconfigured to use only specific IPs, as some NFS services are 1040hosted directly from the kernel. 1041Any third-party network software running 1042in the host environment should also be checked and configured so that it 1043does not bind all IP addresses, which would result in those services also 1044appearing to be offered by the jail environments. 1045.Pp 1046Once 1047these daemons have been disabled or fixed in the host environment, it is 1048best to reboot so that all daemons are in a known state, to reduce the 1049potential for confusion later (such as finding that when you send mail 1050to a jail, and its sendmail is down, the mail is delivered to the host, 1051etc.). 1052.Ss "Configuring the Jail" 1053Start any jail for the first time without configuring the network 1054interface so that you can clean it up a little and set up accounts. 1055As 1056with any machine (virtual or not), you will need to set a root password, time 1057zone, etc. 1058Some of these steps apply only if you intend to run a full virtual server 1059inside the jail; others apply both for constraining a particular application 1060or for running a virtual server. 1061.Pp 1062Start a shell in the jail: 1063.Bd -literal -offset indent 1064jail -c path=/data/jail/testjail mount.devfs \\ 1065 host.hostname=testhostname ip4.addr=192.0.2.100 \\ 1066 command=/bin/sh 1067.Ed 1068.Pp 1069Assuming no errors, you will end up with a shell prompt within the jail. 1070You can now run 1071.Xr bsdconfig 8 1072and do the post-install configuration to set various configuration options, 1073or perform these actions manually by editing 1074.Pa /etc/rc.conf , 1075etc. 1076.Pp 1077.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact 1078.It 1079Configure 1080.Pa /etc/resolv.conf 1081so that name resolution within the jail will work correctly. 1082.It 1083Run 1084.Xr newaliases 1 1085to quell 1086.Xr sendmail 8 1087warnings. 1088.It 1089Set a root password, probably different from the real host system. 1090.It 1091Set the timezone. 1092.It 1093Add accounts for users in the jail environment. 1094.It 1095Install any packages the environment requires. 1096.El 1097.Pp 1098You may also want to perform any package-specific configuration (web servers, 1099SSH servers, etc), patch up 1100.Pa /etc/syslog.conf 1101so it logs as you would like, etc. 1102If you are not using a virtual server, you may wish to modify 1103.Xr syslogd 8 1104in the host environment to listen on the syslog socket in the jail 1105environment; in this example, the syslog socket would be stored in 1106.Pa /data/jail/testjail/var/run/log . 1107.Pp 1108Exit from the shell, and the jail will be shut down. 1109.Ss "Starting the Jail" 1110You are now ready to restart the jail and bring up the environment with 1111all of its daemons and other programs. 1112Create an entry for the jail in 1113.Pa /etc/jail.conf : 1114.Bd -literal -offset indent 1115testjail { 1116 path = /tmp/jail/testjail; 1117 mount.devfs; 1118 host.hostname = testhostname; 1119 ip4.addr = 192.0.2.100; 1120 interface = em0; 1121 exec.start = "/bin/sh /etc/rc"; 1122 exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown jail"; 1123} 1124.Ed 1125.Pp 1126To start a virtual server environment, 1127.Pa /etc/rc 1128is run to launch various daemons and services, and 1129.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown 1130is run to shut them down when the jail is removed. 1131If you are running a single application in the jail, 1132substitute the command used to start the application for 1133.Dq /bin/sh /etc/rc ; 1134there may be some script available to cleanly shut down the application, 1135or it may be sufficient to go without a stop command, and have 1136.Nm 1137send 1138.Dv SIGTERM 1139to the application. 1140.Pp 1141Start the jail by running: 1142.Bd -literal -offset indent 1143jail -c testjail 1144.Ed 1145.Pp 1146A few warnings may be produced; however, it should all work properly. 1147You should be able to see 1148.Xr inetd 8 , 1149.Xr syslogd 8 , 1150and other processes running within the jail using 1151.Xr ps 1 , 1152with the 1153.Ql J 1154flag appearing beside jailed processes. 1155To see an active list of jails, use 1156.Xr jls 8 . 1157If 1158.Xr sshd 8 1159is enabled in the jail environment, you should be able to 1160.Xr ssh 1 1161to the hostname or IP address of the jailed environment, and log 1162in using the accounts you created previously. 1163.Pp 1164It is possible to have jails started at boot time. 1165Please refer to the 1166.Dq jail_* 1167variables in 1168.Xr rc.conf 5 1169for more information. 1170.Ss "Managing the Jail" 1171Normal machine shutdown commands, such as 1172.Xr halt 8 , 1173.Xr reboot 8 , 1174and 1175.Xr shutdown 8 , 1176cannot be used successfully within the jail. 1177To kill all processes from within a jail, you may use one of the 1178following commands, depending on what you want to accomplish: 1179.Bd -literal -offset indent 1180kill -TERM -1 1181kill -KILL -1 1182.Ed 1183.Pp 1184This will send the 1185.Dv SIGTERM 1186or 1187.Dv SIGKILL 1188signals to all processes in the jail \(em be careful not to run this from 1189the host environment! 1190Once all of the jail's processes have died, unless the jail was created 1191with the 1192.Va persist 1193parameter, the jail will be removed. 1194Depending on 1195the intended use of the jail, you may also want to run 1196.Pa /etc/rc.shutdown 1197from within the jail. 1198.Pp 1199To shut down the jail from the outside, simply remove it with: 1200.Bd -literal -offset indent 1201jail -r 1202.Ed 1203.Pp 1204which will run any commands specified by 1205.Va exec.stop , 1206and then send 1207.Dv SIGTERM 1208and eventually 1209.Dv SIGKILL 1210to any remaining jailed processes. 1211.Pp 1212The 1213.Pa /proc/ Ns Ar pid Ns Pa /status 1214file contains, as its last field, the name of the jail in which the 1215process runs, or 1216.Dq Li - 1217to indicate that the process is not running within a jail. 1218The 1219.Xr ps 1 1220command also shows a 1221.Ql J 1222flag for processes in a jail. 1223.Pp 1224You can also list/kill processes based on their jail ID. 1225To show processes and their jail ID, use the following command: 1226.Pp 1227.Dl "ps ax -o pid,jid,args" 1228.Pp 1229To show and then kill processes in jail number 3 use the following commands: 1230.Bd -literal -offset indent 1231pgrep -lfj 3 1232pkill -j 3 1233.Ed 1234or: 1235.Pp 1236.Dl "killall -j 3" 1237.Ss "Jails and File Systems" 1238It is not possible to 1239.Xr mount 8 1240or 1241.Xr umount 8 1242any file system inside a jail unless the file system is marked 1243jail-friendly, the jail's 1244.Va allow.mount 1245parameter is set, and the jail's 1246.Va enforce_statfs 1247parameter is lower than 2. 1248.Pp 1249Multiple jails sharing the same file system can influence each other. 1250For example, a user in one jail can fill the file system, 1251leaving no space for processes in the other jail. 1252Trying to use 1253.Xr quota 1 1254to prevent this will not work either, as the file system quotas 1255are not aware of jails but only look at the user and group IDs. 1256This means the same user ID in two jails share a single file 1257system quota. 1258One would need to use one file system per jail to make this work. 1259.Ss "Sysctl MIB Entries" 1260The read-only entry 1261.Va security.jail.jailed 1262can be used to determine if a process is running inside a jail (value 1263is one) or not (value is zero). 1264.Pp 1265The variable 1266.Va security.jail.max_af_ips 1267determines how may address per address family a jail may have. 1268The default is 255. 1269.Pp 1270Some MIB variables have per-jail settings. 1271Changes to these variables by a jailed process do not affect the host 1272environment, only the jail environment. 1273These variables are 1274.Va kern.securelevel , 1275.Va security.bsd.suser_enabled , 1276.Va kern.hostname , 1277.Va kern.domainname , 1278.Va kern.hostid , 1279and 1280.Va kern.hostuuid . 1281.Ss "Hierarchical Jails" 1282By setting a jail's 1283.Va children.max 1284parameter, processes within a jail may be able to create jails of their own. 1285These child jails are kept in a hierarchy, with jails only able to see and/or 1286modify the jails they created (or those jails' children). 1287Each jail has a read-only 1288.Va parent 1289parameter, containing the 1290.Va jid 1291of the jail that created it; a 1292.Va jid 1293of 0 indicates the jail is a child of the current jail (or is a top-level 1294jail if the current process isn't jailed). 1295.Pp 1296Jailed processes are not allowed to confer greater permissions than they 1297themselves are given, e.g., if a jail is created with 1298.Va allow.nomount , 1299it is not able to create a jail with 1300.Va allow.mount 1301set. 1302Similarly, such restrictions as 1303.Va ip4.addr 1304and 1305.Va securelevel 1306may not be bypassed in child jails. 1307.Pp 1308A child jail may in turn create its own child jails if its own 1309.Va children.max 1310parameter is set (remember it is zero by default). 1311These jails are visible to and can be modified by their parent and all 1312ancestors. 1313.Pp 1314Jail names reflect this hierarchy, with a full name being an MIB-type string 1315separated by dots. 1316For example, if a base system process creates a jail 1317.Dq foo , 1318and a process under that jail creates another jail 1319.Dq bar , 1320then the second jail will be seen as 1321.Dq foo.bar 1322in the base system (though it is only seen as 1323.Dq bar 1324to any processes inside jail 1325.Dq foo ) . 1326Jids on the other hand exist in a single space, and each jail must have a 1327unique jid. 1328.Pp 1329Like the names, a child jail's 1330.Va path 1331appears relative to its creator's own 1332.Va path . 1333This is by virtue of the child jail being created in the chrooted 1334environment of the first jail. 1335.Sh SEE ALSO 1336.Xr killall 1 , 1337.Xr lsvfs 1 , 1338.Xr newaliases 1 , 1339.Xr pgrep 1 , 1340.Xr pkill 1 , 1341.Xr ps 1 , 1342.Xr quota 1 , 1343.Xr jail_set 2 , 1344.Xr vmm 4 , 1345.Xr devfs 5 , 1346.Xr fdescfs 5 , 1347.Xr jail.conf 5 , 1348.Xr linprocfs 5 , 1349.Xr linsysfs 5 , 1350.Xr procfs 5 , 1351.Xr rc.conf 5 , 1352.Xr sysctl.conf 5 , 1353.Xr bsdconfig 8 , 1354.Xr chroot 8 , 1355.Xr devfs 8 , 1356.Xr halt 8 , 1357.Xr ifconfig 8 , 1358.Xr inetd 8 , 1359.Xr jexec 8 , 1360.Xr jls 8 , 1361.Xr mount 8 , 1362.Xr reboot 8 , 1363.Xr rpcbind 8 , 1364.Xr sendmail 8 , 1365.Xr shutdown 8 , 1366.Xr sysctl 8 , 1367.Xr syslogd 8 , 1368.Xr umount 8 1369.Sh HISTORY 1370The 1371.Nm 1372utility appeared in 1373.Fx 4.0 . 1374Hierarchical/extensible jails were introduced in 1375.Fx 8.0 . 1376The configuration file was introduced in 1377.Fx 9.1 . 1378.Sh AUTHORS 1379.An -nosplit 1380The jail feature was written by 1381.An Poul-Henning Kamp 1382for R&D Associates 1383who contributed it to 1384.Fx . 1385.Pp 1386.An Robert Watson 1387wrote the extended documentation, found a few bugs, added 1388a few new features, and cleaned up the userland jail environment. 1389.Pp 1390.An Bjoern A. Zeeb 1391added multi-IP jail support for IPv4 and IPv6 based on a patch 1392originally done by 1393.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek 1394for IPv4. 1395.Pp 1396.An James Gritton 1397added the extensible jail parameters, hierarchical jails, 1398and the configuration file. 1399.Sh BUGS 1400It might be a good idea to add an 1401address alias flag such that daemons listening on all IPs 1402.Pq Dv INADDR_ANY 1403will not bind on that address, which would facilitate building a safe 1404host environment such that host daemons do not impose on services offered 1405from within jails. 1406Currently, the simplest answer is to minimize services 1407offered on the host, possibly limiting it to services offered from 1408.Xr inetd 8 1409which is easily configurable. 1410.Sh NOTES 1411Great care should be taken when managing directories visible within the jail. 1412For example, if a jailed process has its current working directory set to a 1413directory that is moved out of the jail's chroot, then the process may gain 1414access to the file space outside of the jail. 1415It is recommended that directories always be copied, rather than moved, out 1416of a jail. 1417.Pp 1418In addition, there are several ways in which an unprivileged user 1419outside the jail can cooperate with a privileged user inside the jail 1420and thereby obtain elevated privileges in the host environment. 1421Most of these attacks can be mitigated by ensuring that the jail root 1422is not accessible to unprivileged users in the host environment. 1423Regardless, as a general rule, untrusted users with privileged access 1424to a jail should not be given access to the host environment. 1425