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Jails are closer. They are perhaps a way of achieving some of this. The problem (unless I'm wrong) is that you need root to create one, so you are back to needi
by api 9y ago
Jails are closer. They are perhaps a way of achieving some of this. The problem (unless I'm wrong) is that you need root to create one, so you are back to needing root for everything.
- rsync 9y agoYes, of course the base systems root is necessary to create the jail, but then the jail has its own root user as well as its own /etc/passwd (and /etc/everythingelse). For many, many purposes (almost all ?) a FreeBSD jail is indistinguishable to the root user from a bare metal server.