Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] chroot jailed users

[Dean T. <de...@ha...>]

> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:31:59 -0500
> From: Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...>
> Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] chroot jailed users
> To: dev...@li...
> 
> Did you try the mount command?
> I was able to successfully mount over the symlink and saw the correct  
> contents of the folder.
> 
> If this testing works, then I'll get rid of the symlink and use "mount  
> --bind" instead. We're using this now for a couple of other  
> directories, but seems like I forgot to change it for /jail.

From a fresh boot of devil-linux-1.6.1-i686_bootcd.iso with no config;

Devil login: root
Password:
root@Devil:~ # ls -l /jail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May  8 04:33 /jail -> /shm/jail
root@Devil:~ # mount -n --bind /shm/jail /jail
root@Devil:~ # mkdir -v /jail/home
mkdir: created directory '/jail/home'
root@Devil:~ # jk_init /jail/home basicshell
ERROR: /jail is a symlink, please point to the real directory

ERROR: jail directory /jail/home is not safe
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-dean takemori