[ale] sandboxing

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Mon Aug 18 14:54:37 EDT 2003


UML and Sandboxing are totally differnt.  


UML allows a non-root user to run a kernel and other stuff
as root.  Sandboxing is nothing more than a chroot jail.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:50:43PM -0400, attriel wrote:
> OK, I've been looking at User Mode Linux and messing around with it, to
> give myslef virutal servers ...
> 
> Now I'm being told that we may be getting XServ's (Mac OS X), so I'm
> trying to find out how to do the same kind of thing in BSD (specifically
> OS X, based off freebsd)
> 
> I'm told that this is "sandboxing" in BSD-speak, and done via a
> chroot-jail setup (which is more than I thought it was, apparently, too
> :o)
> 
> Anyone know where I might look for a howto or a guide or even a detailed
> explanation of what I need to do to set up a sandbox ?  I need to mess
> around with it so I can see if it does all the things I want to abuse it
> to do, but I don't know where to start :/
> 
> thanks!
> 
> --attriel
> 
> (I know, it's not technicall a linux question, but the UML stuff is linux :)
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