Jailkit
Jailkit is a set of utilities to allow quick creation of limited user accounts in a chroot jail. It contains a safe logging daemon, shells that can restrict users, utilities to start daemons in a chroot jail, and utilities for easy setup of chroot jails.
| Tags | Logging Monitoring Shells |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Revised |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C Python |
Recent releases
- 05 Apr 2009 23:00
Changes: This release fixes a regression in Jailkit 2.6 that may hang jk_chrootsh and jk_uchroot in a certain situation with chroot'ed interactive shells.
- 02 Apr 2009 11:11
Changes: This maintenance update includes some small code cleanups and fixes for Solaris compatibility.
- 07 Dec 2007 08:07
Changes: This release fixes a problem in jk_cp and jk_init which caused symlinks to directories to be copied as directories instead of symlinks, adds small documentation improvements, and adds a -j option to all utilities to improve consistency.
- 17 Jul 2007 14:08
Changes: This release adds a new jk_uchroot utility, fixes a rare crash in configuration file parsing, adds new jk_init and jk_cp options, improves the documentation, improves several jail security checks, and improves error reporting.
- 28 Dec 2006 06:02
Changes: Various small fixes were made for the new jk_update utility. A -k option was added to jk_cp. jk_init and jk_update now use hardlinks instead of copying. Various fixes were made to install jailkit in a different location.
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Recent commentsSoftware with a similar purpose: Plash
You might also be interested in Plash, which also creates
restricted environments for running programs in. Like
jailkit, you can specify what files a process can access, but
you don't need to copy the files, so it's more lightweight
and flexible. You can grant a process read-only or
read-write access to specific directories, mapped at any
point in the file namespace.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/plash/