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JAIL(8)			    System Manager's Manual		       JAIL(8)

NAME
       jail -- manage system jails

SYNOPSIS
   From	Configuration File
       jail [-cm] [-dqv] [-f conf_file]	[-p limit] [jail]
       jail [-r] [-qv] [-f conf_file] [-p limit] [* | jail ...]

   Without Configuration File
       jail   [-cm]  [-dhilqv]	[-J  jid_file]	[-u  username]	[-U  username]
	    param=value	... [command=command ...]
       jail [-rR] [-qv]	[* | jail ...]

   Show	Parameters
       jail [-f	conf_file] -e separator

   Backward Compatibility
       jail [-dhilqv] [-J jid_file] [-u	username] [-U username]	[-n  jailname]
	    [-s	securelevel] path hostname ip[,...] command ...

DESCRIPTION
       The  jail  utility  creates  new	jails, or modifies or removes existing
       jails.  It can also print a list	of configured jails and	their  parame-
       ters.   A jail (or "prison") is specified via parameters	on the command
       line, or	in the jail.conf(5) file.

       At least	one of the options -c, -e, -m or -r must be specified.	 These
       options	are  used alone	or in combination to describe the operation to
       perform:

       -c      Create a	new jail.  The jail jid	and name parameters (if	speci-
	       fied on the command line) must not refer	to an existing jail.

       -e separator
	       Exhibit a list of all configured	non-wildcard jails  and	 their
	       parameters.   No	 jail  creation,  modification or removal per-
	       formed if this option is	used.  The separator string is used to
	       separate	parameters.  Use jls(8)	utility	to list	running	jails.

       -m      Modify an existing jail.	 One of	the  jid  or  name  parameters
	       must  exist and refer to	an existing jail.  Some	parameters may
	       not be changed on a running jail.

       -r      Remove the jail specified by jid	or name.  All jailed processes
	       are killed, and all jails that are children of  this  jail  are
	       also removed.

       -rc     Restart	an  existing jail.  The	jail is	first removed and then
	       re-created, as if "jail -r" and "jail -c" were run  in  succes-
	       sion.

       -cm     Create  a  jail	if it does not exist, or modify	the jail if it
	       does exist.

       -mr     Modify an existing jail.	 The jail may be restarted  if	neces-
	       sary to modify parameters than could not	otherwise be changed.

       -cmr    Create  a  jail	if  it	doesn't	exist, or modify (and possibly
	       restart)	the jail if it does exist.

       Other available options are:

       -d      Allow making  changes  to  a  dying  jail,  equivalent  to  the
	       allow.dying parameter.

       -f conf_file
	       Use   configuration  file  conf_file  instead  of  the  default
	       /etc/jail.conf.

       -h      Resolve the host.hostname parameter (or hostname) and  add  all
	       IP  addresses returned by the resolver to the list of addresses
	       for this	jail.  This is equivalent to the  ip_hostname  parame-
	       ter.

       -i      Output (only) the jail identifier of the	newly created jail(s).
	       This implies the	-q option.

       -J jid_file
	       Write  a	jid_file file, containing the parameters used to start
	       the jail.

       -l      Run commands in a clean environment.  This is deprecated	and is
	       equivalent to the exec.clean parameter.

       -n jailname
	       Set the jail's name.  This is deprecated	and is	equivalent  to
	       the name	parameter.

       -p limit
	       Limit  the number of commands from exec.* that can run simulta-
	       neously.

       -q      Suppress	the message printed whenever a jail is created,	 modi-
	       fied or removed.	 Only error messages will be printed.

       -R      A  variation  of	 the  -r  option that removes an existing jail
	       without using the configuration file.  No removal-related para-
	       meters for this jail will be used -- the	jail  will  simply  be
	       removed.

       -s securelevel
	       Set  the	 kern.securelevel MIB entry to the specified value in-
	       side the	newly created jail.  This is deprecated	and is equiva-
	       lent to the securelevel parameter.

       -u username
	       The user	name from host environment  as	whom  jailed  commands
	       should  run.   This  is	deprecated  and	 is  equivalent	to the
	       exec.jail_user and exec.system_jail_user	parameters.

       -U username
	       The user	name from the jailed environment as whom  jailed  com-
	       mands  should run.  This	is deprecated and is equivalent	to the
	       exec.jail_user parameter.

       -v      Print a message on every	operation, such	 as  running  commands
	       and mounting filesystems.

       If  no arguments	are given after	the options, the operation (except re-
       move) will be performed on all  jails  specified	 in  the  jail.conf(5)
       file.  A	single argument	of a jail name will operate only on the	speci-
       fied  jail.   The  -r and -R options can	also remove running jails that
       aren't in the jail.conf(5) file,	specified by name or jid.

       An argument of "*" is a wildcard	that will operate on  all  jails,  re-
       gardless	of whether they	appear in jail.conf(5);	this is	the surest way
       for  -r	to  remove all jails.  If hierarchical jails exist, a partial-
       matching	wildcard definition may	be specified.  For example,  an	 argu-
       ment  of	 "foo.*"  would	 apply	to jails with names like "foo.bar" and
       "foo.bar.baz".

       A jail may also be specified via	parameters  directly  on  the  command
       line  in	"name=value" form, ignoring the	contents of jail.conf(5).  For
       backward	compatibility, the command line	may also have four fixed para-
       meters, without names: path, hostname, ip, and command.

   Jail	Parameters
       Parameters in the jail.conf(5) file, or on the command line, are	gener-
       ally of the form	"name=value".  Some parameters are boolean, and	do not
       have a value but	are set	by the name alone with or without a "no"  pre-
       fix,  e.g.   persist  or	 nopersist.  They can also be given the	values
       "true" and "false".  Other parameters may have  more  than  one	value,
       specified  as  a	comma-separated	list or	with "+=" in the configuration
       file (see jail.conf(5) for details).

       The jail	utility	recognizes two classes of parameters.  There  are  the
       true  jail  parameters  that  are passed	to the kernel when the jail is
       created,	which can be seen with jls(8), and can	(usually)  be  changed
       with "jail -m".	Then there are pseudo-parameters that are only used by
       jail itself.

       Jails  have  a set of core parameters, and kernel modules can add their
       own jail	parameters.  The current set of	available  parameters  can  be
       retrieved  via "sysctl -d security.jail.param".	Any parameters not set
       will be given default values, often based on the	 current  environment.
       The core	parameters are:

       jid     The  jail identifier.  This will	be assigned automatically to a
	       new jail	(or can	be explicitly set), and	can be used  to	 iden-
	       tify  the  jail for later modification, or for such commands as
	       jls(8) or jexec(8).

       name    The jail	name.  This is an arbitrary string that	 identifies  a
	       jail  (except  it may not contain a `.').  Like the jid,	it can
	       be passed to later jail commands, or to jls(8) or jexec(8).  If
	       no name is supplied, a default is assumed that is the  same  as
	       the  jid.   The	name  parameter	is implied by the jail.conf(5)
	       file format, and	need not be explicitly set when	using the con-
	       figuration file.

       path    The directory which is to be the	root of	the  jail.   Any  com-
	       mands run inside	the jail, either by jail or from jexec(8), are
	       run from	this directory.

       ip4.addr
	       A list of IPv4 addresses	assigned to the	jail.  If this is set,
	       the  jail is restricted to using	only these addresses.  Any at-
	       tempts to use other addresses fail, and attempts	to  use	 wild-
	       card  addresses	silently  use the jailed address instead.  For
	       IPv4 the	first address given will be used as the	source address
	       when source address selection on	unbound	sockets	cannot find  a
	       better match.  It is only possible to start multiple jails with
	       the  same  IP  address  if none of the jails has	more than this
	       single overlapping IP address assigned to itself.

       ip4.saddrsel
	       A boolean option	to change the formerly mentioned behaviour and
	       disable IPv4 source address selection for the jail in favour of
	       the primary IPv4	address	of the jail.  Source address selection
	       is enabled by default for all jails and the ip4.nosaddrsel set-
	       ting of a parent	jail is	not inherited for any child jails.

       ip4     Control the availability	of IPv4	 addresses.   Possible	values
	       are  "inherit"  to  allow unrestricted access to	all system ad-
	       dresses,	 "new"	to  restrict  addresses	 via   ip4.addr,   and
	       "disable"  to  stop the jail from using IPv4 entirely.  Setting
	       the ip4.addr parameter implies a	value of "new".

       ip6.addr, ip6.saddrsel, ip6
	       A set of	 IPv6  options	for  the  jail,	 the  counterparts  to
	       ip4.addr, ip4.saddrsel and ip4 above.

       vnet    Create  the  jail  with its own virtual network stack, with its
	       own network interfaces, addresses,  routing  table,  etc.   The
	       kernel  must have been compiled with the	VIMAGE option for this
	       to be available.	 Possible values are "inherit" to use the sys-
	       tem network stack, possibly with	restricted IP  addresses,  and
	       "new" to	create a new network stack.

       host.hostname
	       The  hostname  of  the  jail.   Other  similar  parameters  are
	       host.domainname,	host.hostuuid and host.hostid.

       host    Set the origin of hostname and related  information.   Possible
	       values  are  "inherit"  to use the system information and "new"
	       for the jail to use the	information  from  the	above  fields.
	       Setting any of the above	fields implies a value of "new".

       securelevel
	       The  value of the jail's	kern.securelevel sysctl.  A jail never
	       has a lower securelevel than its	parent system, but by  setting
	       this  parameter	it  may	 have a	higher one.  If	the system se-
	       curelevel is changed, any jail securelevels will	be at least as
	       secure.

       devfs_ruleset
	       The number of the devfs ruleset that is enforced	 for  mounting
	       devfs in	this jail.  A value of zero (default) means no ruleset
	       is  enforced.  Descendant jails inherit the parent jail's devfs
	       ruleset enforcement.  Mounting devfs inside a jail is  possible
	       only  if	 the allow.mount and allow.mount.devfs permissions are
	       effective and enforce_statfs is set to a	value  lower  than  2.
	       Devfs  rules and	rulesets cannot	be viewed or modified from in-
	       side a jail.

	       NOTE: It	is important that only appropriate device nodes	in de-
	       vfs be exposed to a jail; access	to disk	devices	 in  the  jail
	       may  permit processes in	the jail to bypass the jail sandboxing
	       by modifying files outside of the jail.	See devfs(8)  for  in-
	       formation  on how to use	devfs rules to limit access to entries
	       in the per-jail devfs.  A simple	devfs  ruleset	for  jails  is
	       available as ruleset #4 in /etc/defaults/devfs.rules.

       children.max
	       The  number  of	child jails allowed to be created by this jail
	       (or by other jails under	this jail).  This limit	is zero	by de-
	       fault, indicating the jail  is  not  allowed  to	 create	 child
	       jails.	See the	"Hierarchical Jails" section for more informa-
	       tion.

       children.cur
	       The number of descendants of this jail, including its own child
	       jails and any jails created under them.

       enforce_statfs
	       This determines what information	processes in a jail  are  able
	       to  get	about  mount  points.  It affects the behaviour	of the
	       following syscalls: statfs(2),  fstatfs(2),  getfsstat(2),  and
	       fhstatfs(2)  (as	well as	similar	compatibility syscalls).  When
	       set to 0, all mount points are available	without	 any  restric-
	       tions.	When  set to 1,	only mount points below	the jail's ch-
	       root directory are visible.  In addition	to that, the  path  to
	       the  jail's chroot directory is removed from the	front of their
	       pathnames.  When	set to 2 (default), above syscalls can operate
	       only on a mount-point where the jail's chroot directory is  lo-
	       cated.

       persist
	       Setting	this  boolean parameter	allows a jail to exist without
	       any processes.  Normally, a command is run as part of jail cre-
	       ation, and then the jail	is destroyed as	its last  process  ex-
	       its.   A	 new  jail  must  have either the persist parameter or
	       exec.start or command pseudo-parameter set.

       cpuset.id
	       The ID of the cpuset associated with this jail (read-only).

       dying   This is true if the jail	is in the  process  of	shutting  down
	       (read-only).

       parent  The  jid	 of the	parent of this jail, or	zero if	this is	a top-
	       level jail (read-only).

       osrelease
	       The string for the jail's kern.osrelease	sysctl and uname -r.

       osreldate
	       The number for the jail's kern.osreldate	and uname -K.

       allow.*
	       Some restrictions of the	jail environment may be	set on a  per-
	       jail  basis.   With  the	 exception  of	allow.set_hostname and
	       allow.reserved_ports, these boolean parameters are off  by  de-
	       fault.

	       allow.set_hostname
		       The  jail's  hostname may be changed via	hostname(1) or
		       sethostname(3).

	       allow.sysvipc
		       A process within	the jail has access to	System	V  IPC
		       primitives.   This  is  deprecated in favor of the per-
		       module parameters (see below).  When this parameter  is
		       set,  it	is equivalent to setting sysvmsg, sysvsem, and
		       sysvshm all to "inherit".

	       allow.raw_sockets
		       The jail	root is	allowed	to create raw  sockets.	  Set-
		       ting  this  parameter allows utilities like ping(8) and
		       traceroute(8) to	operate	inside the jail.  If  this  is
		       set,  the  source  IP  addresses	are enforced to	comply
		       with the	IP address bound to the	 jail,	regardless  of
		       whether	or not the IP_HDRINCL flag has been set	on the
		       socket.	Since raw sockets can be used to configure and
		       interact	with various network subsystems, extra caution
		       should be used where  privileged	 access	 to  jails  is
		       given out to untrusted parties.

	       allow.chflags
		       Normally, privileged users inside a jail	are treated as
		       unprivileged  by	 chflags(2).   When  this parameter is
		       set, such users are treated as privileged, and may  ma-
		       nipulate	 system	 file  flags subject to	the usual con-
		       straints	on kern.securelevel.

	       allow.mount
		       privileged users	inside the jail	will be	able to	 mount
		       and  unmount file system	types marked as	jail-friendly.
		       The lsvfs(1) command can	be used	to  find  file	system
		       types  available	 for  mount  from within a jail.  This
		       permission is effective only if enforce_statfs  is  set
		       to a value lower	than 2.

	       allow.mount.devfs
		       privileged  users inside	the jail will be able to mount
		       and unmount the devfs file system.  This	permission  is
		       effective  only together	with allow.mount and only when
		       enforce_statfs is set to	a value	lower than 2.  The de-
		       vfs ruleset should be restricted	from  the  default  by
		       using the devfs_ruleset option.

	       allow.quotas
		       The  jail  root	may  administer	 quotas	 on the	jail's
		       filesystem(s).  This includes filesystems that the jail
		       may share with other jails or with non-jailed parts  of
		       the system.

	       allow.read_msgbuf
		       Jailed  users  may  read	the kernel message buffer.  If
		       the security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf MIB entry  is
		       zero, this will be restricted to	the root user.

	       allow.socket_af
		       Sockets	within a jail are normally restricted to IPv4,
		       IPv6, local (UNIX), and route.  This allows  access  to
		       other  protocol stacks that have	not had	jail function-
		       ality added to them.

	       allow.mlock
		       Locking or unlocking physical pages in memory are  nor-
		       mally not available within a jail.  When	this parameter
		       is set, users may mlock(2) or munlock(2)	memory subject
		       to security.bsd.unprivileged_mlock and resource limits.

	       allow.nfsd
		       The   mountd(8),	  nfsd(8),  nfsuserd(8),  gssd(8)  and
		       rpc.tlsservd(8) daemons are permitted to	run  inside  a
		       properly	configured vnet-enabled	jail.  The jail's root
		       must  be	 a  file system	mount point and	enforce_statfs
		       must not	be set to 0, so	that mountd(8) can export file
		       systems visible within the jail.	  enforce_statfs  must
		       be  set	to  1 if file systems mounted under the	jail's
		       file system need	to be exported by mount(8).   For  ex-
		       porting	only the jail's	file system, a setting of 2 is
		       sufficient.  If the kernel configuration	does  not  in-
		       clude  the  NFSD	option,	nfsd.ko	must be	loaded outside
		       of the jails.  This is normally done by	adding	"nfsd"
		       to  kld_list  in	 the  rc.conf(5)  file	outside	of the
		       jails.  Similarily, if the gssd(8) is to	be  run	 in  a
		       jail,  either  the  kernel  KGSSAPI  option needs to be
		       specified or "kgssapi" and "kgssapi_krb5" need to be in
		       kld_list	in the rc.conf(5) file outside of the jails.

	       allow.reserved_ports
		       The jail	root may bind to ports lower than 1024.

	       allow.unprivileged_proc_debug
		       Unprivileged processes in the jail  may	use  debugging
		       facilities.

	       allow.suser
		       The  value  of  the  jail's  security.bsd.suser_enabled
		       sysctl.	The super-user will be disabled	 automatically
		       if  its	parent system has it disabled.	The super-user
		       is enabled by default.

       Kernel modules may add their own	parameters, which only exist when  the
       module  is  loaded.  These are typically	headed under a parameter named
       after the module, with values of	"inherit" to give the jail full	use of
       the module, "new" to encapsulate	the jail in some module-specific  way,
       and  "disable"  to make the module unavailable to the jail.  There also
       may be other parameters to define  jail	behavior  within  the  module.
       Module-specific parameters include:

       allow.mount.fdescfs
	       privileged  users inside	the jail will be able to mount and un-
	       mount the fdescfs file system.  This  permission	 is  effective
	       only  together with allow.mount and only	when enforce_statfs is
	       set to a	value lower than 2.

       allow.mount.fusefs
	       privileged users	inside the jail	will be	able to	mount and  un-
	       mount  fuse-based  file	systems.  This permission is effective
	       only together with allow.mount and only when enforce_statfs  is
	       set to a	value lower than 2.

       allow.mount.nullfs
	       privileged  users inside	the jail will be able to mount and un-
	       mount the nullfs	file system.   This  permission	 is  effective
	       only  together with allow.mount and only	when enforce_statfs is
	       set to a	value lower than 2.

       allow.mount.procfs
	       privileged users	inside the jail	will be	able to	mount and  un-
	       mount  the  procfs  file	 system.  This permission is effective
	       only together with allow.mount and only when enforce_statfs  is
	       set to a	value lower than 2.

       allow.mount.linprocfs
	       privileged  users inside	the jail will be able to mount and un-
	       mount the linprocfs file	system.	 This permission is  effective
	       only  together with allow.mount and only	when enforce_statfs is
	       set to a	value lower than 2.

       allow.mount.linsysfs
	       privileged users	inside the jail	will be	able to	mount and  un-
	       mount  the  linsysfs file system.  This permission is effective
	       only together with allow.mount and only when enforce_statfs  is
	       set to a	value lower than 2.

       allow.mount.tmpfs
	       privileged  users inside	the jail will be able to mount and un-
	       mount the tmpfs file system.  This permission is	effective only
	       together	with allow.mount and only when enforce_statfs  is  set
	       to a value lower	than 2.

       allow.mount.zfs
	       privileged  users inside	the jail will be able to mount and un-
	       mount the ZFS file system.  This	permission is  effective  only
	       together	 with  allow.mount and only when enforce_statfs	is set
	       to a value lower	than 2.	 See zfs(8) for	information on how  to
	       configure the ZFS filesystem to operate from within a jail.

       allow.vmm
	       The  jail  may access vmm(4).  This flag	is only	available when
	       the vmm(4) kernel module	is loaded.

       linux   Determine how a jail's Linux emulation environment appears.   A
	       value  of  "inherit"  will keep the same	environment, and "new"
	       will give the jail its own environment (still originally	inher-
	       ited when the jail is created).

       linux.osname, linux.osrelease, linux.oss_version
	       The Linux OS name, OS release, and OSS version associated  with
	       this jail.

       sysvmsg
	       Allow  access  to  SYSV	IPC  message  primitives.   If	set to
	       "inherit", all IPC objects on the system	are  visible  to  this
	       jail,  whether  they  were created by the jail itself, the base
	       system, or other	jails.	If set to "new", the  jail  will  have
	       its own key namespace, and can only see the objects that	it has
	       created;	 the  system (or parent	jail) has access to the	jail's
	       objects,	but not	to its keys.  If set to	 "disable",  the  jail
	       cannot perform any sysvmsg-related system calls.

       sysvsem,	sysvshm
	       Allow  access  to  SYSV	IPC semaphore and shared memory	primi-
	       tives, in the same manner as sysvmsg.

       There are pseudo-parameters that	are not	passed to the kernel, but  are
       used by jail to set up the jail environment, often by running specified
       commands	when jails are created or removed.  The	exec.* command parame-
       ters  are sh(1) command lines that are run in either the	system or jail
       environment.  They may be given multiple	values,	which  would  run  the
       specified  commands  in	sequence.  All commands	must succeed (return a
       zero exit status), or the jail will not be created or removed,  as  ap-
       propriate.

       The pseudo-parameters are:

       exec.prepare
	       Command(s)  to  run in the system environment to	prepare	a jail
	       for creation.  These commands are executed before assigning  IP
	       addresses and mounting filesystems, so they may be used to cre-
	       ate a new jail filesystem if it does not	already	exist.

       exec.prestart
	       Command(s)  to  run  in the system environment before a jail is
	       created.

       exec.created
	       Command(s) to run in the	system environment right after a  jail
	       has  been  created,  but	before commands	(or services) get exe-
	       cuted in	the jail.

       exec.start
	       Command(s) to run in the	jail environment when a	jail  is  cre-
	       ated.  A	typical	command	to run is "sh /etc/rc".

       command
	       A  synonym  for	exec.start  for	use when specifying a jail di-
	       rectly on the command  line.   Unlike  other  parameters	 whose
	       value  is  a  single  string, command uses the remainder	of the
	       jail command line as its	own arguments.

       exec.poststart
	       Command(s) to run in the	system environment  after  a  jail  is
	       created,	and after any exec.start commands have completed.

       exec.prestop
	       Command(s)  to  run  in the system environment before a jail is
	       removed.

       exec.stop
	       Command(s) to run in the	jail environment before	a jail is  re-
	       moved,  and  after any exec.prestop commands have completed.  A
	       typical command to run is "sh /etc/rc.shutdown jail".

       exec.poststop
	       Command(s) to run in the	system environment after a jail	is re-
	       moved.

       exec.release
	       Command(s) to run in the	system environment after all other ac-
	       tions are done.	These commands are executed  after  unmounting
	       filesystems  and	 removing IP addresses,	so they	may be used to
	       remove a	jail filesystem	if it is no longer needed.

       exec.clean
	       Run commands in a clean environment.  The environment  is  dis-
	       carded  except  for HOME, SHELL,	TERM and USER.	HOME and SHELL
	       are set to the target login's default values.  USER is  set  to
	       the  target  login.  TERM is imported from the current environ-
	       ment.  The environment variables	from the login class  capabil-
	       ity database for	the target login are also set.

       exec.jail_user
	       The  user to run	commands as, when running in the jail environ-
	       ment.  The default is to	run the	commands as the	current	user.

       exec.system_jail_user
	       This boolean option looks for the exec.jail_user	in the	system
	       passwd(5) file, instead of in the jail's	file.

       exec.system_user
	       The  user  to run commands as, when running in the system envi-
	       ronment.	 The default is	to run the  commands  as  the  current
	       user.

       exec.timeout
	       The  maximum  amount of time to wait for	a command to complete,
	       in seconds.  If a command is still running after	 this  timeout
	       has  passed, the	jail will not be created or removed, as	appro-
	       priate.

       exec.consolelog
	       A file to direct	command	output (stdout and stderr) to.

       exec.fib
	       The FIB (routing	table) to set when running commands inside the
	       jail.

       stop.timeout
	       The maximum amount of time to wait for a	 jail's	 processes  to
	       exit  after  sending them a SIGTERM signal (which happens after
	       the exec.stop commands have completed).	After this  many  sec-
	       onds have passed, the jail will be removed, which will kill any
	       remaining  processes.   If  this	 is set	to zero, no SIGTERM is
	       sent and	the jail is immediately	removed.  The  default	is  10
	       seconds.

       interface
	       A  network  interface  to add the jail's	IP addresses (ip4.addr
	       and ip6.addr) to.  An alias for each address will be  added  to
	       the  interface  before the jail is created, and will be removed
	       from the	interface after	the jail is removed.

       ip4.addr
	       In addition to the IP addresses that are	passed to the  kernel,
	       an  interface,  netmask and additional parameters (as supported
	       by  ifconfig(8))	 may  also   be	  specified,   in   the	  form
	       "interface|ip-address/netmask  param  ...".  If an interface is
	       given before the	IP address, an alias for the address  will  be
	       added to	that interface,	as it is with the interface parameter.
	       If  a netmask in	either dotted-quad or CIDR form	is given after
	       an IP address, it will be used when adding the  IP  alias.   If
	       additional parameters are specified then	they will also be used
	       when adding the IP alias.

       ip6.addr
	       In  addition to the IP addresses	that are passed	to the kernel,
	       an interface, prefix and	additional parameters (as supported by
	       ifconfig(8))   may   also   be	specified,   in	   the	  form
	       "interface|ip-address/prefix param ...".

       vnet.interface
	       A  network interface to give to a vnet-enabled jail after is it
	       created.	 The interface will automatically be released when the
	       jail is removed.

       ip_hostname
	       Resolve the host.hostname parameter and add  all	 IP  addresses
	       returned	 by the	resolver to the	list of	addresses (ip4.addr or
	       ip6.addr) for this jail.	 This may affect default  address  se-
	       lection	for outgoing IPv4 connections from jails.  The address
	       first returned by the resolver for each address family will  be
	       used as the primary address.

       mount   A  filesystem to	mount before creating the jail (and to unmount
	       after removing it), given as a single fstab(5) line.

       mount.fstab
	       An fstab(5) format file containing filesystems to mount	before
	       creating	a jail.

       mount.devfs
	       Mount a devfs(5)	filesystem on the chrooted /dev	directory, and
	       apply  the ruleset in the devfs_ruleset parameter (or a default
	       of ruleset 4: devfsrules_jail) to restrict the devices  visible
	       inside the jail.

       mount.fdescfs
	       Mount  a	 fdescfs(5)  filesystem	on the chrooted	/dev/fd	direc-
	       tory.

       mount.procfs
	       Mount a procfs(5) filesystem on the chrooted /proc directory.

       allow.dying
	       Allow making changes to a dying jail.

       depend  Specify a jail (or jails) that this jail	depends	on.  When this
	       jail is to be created, any jail(s) it depends on	 must  already
	       exist.	If  not, they will be created automatically, up	to the
	       completion of the last exec.poststart command, before  any  ac-
	       tion  will  taken  to create this jail.	When jails are removed
	       the opposite is true: this jail will be removed,	up to the last
	       exec.poststop command, before any jail(s)  it  depends  on  are
	       stopped.

EXAMPLES
       Jails  are  typically  set  up using one	of two philosophies: either to
       constrain a specific application	(possibly running with privilege),  or
       to  create  a  "virtual	system image" running a	variety	of daemons and
       services.  In both cases, a fairly  complete  file  system  install  of
       FreeBSD is required, so as to provide the necessary command line	tools,
       daemons,	libraries, application configuration files, etc.  However, for
       a virtual server	configuration, a fair amount of	additional work	is re-
       quired so as to replace the "boot" process.  This manual	page documents
       the configuration steps necessary to support either of these steps, al-
       though  the  configuration  steps may need to be	refined	based on local
       requirements.

   Setting up a	Jail Directory Tree
       To set up a jail	directory tree containing an entire FreeBSD  distribu-
       tion, the following sh(1) command script	can be used:

	     D=/here/is/the/jail
	     cd	/usr/src
	     mkdir -p $D
	     make world	DESTDIR=$D
	     make distribution DESTDIR=$D

       In  many	cases this example would put far more in the jail than needed.
       In the other extreme case a jail	might contain only one file: the  exe-
       cutable to be run in the	jail.

       We  recommend  experimentation,	and caution that it is a lot easier to
       start with a "fat" jail and remove things until it stops	working,  than
       it is to	start with a "thin" jail and add things	until it works.

   Setting Up a	Jail
       Do  what	 was  described	in "Setting Up a Jail Directory	Tree" to build
       the jail	directory tree.	 For the sake of this example, we will	assume
       you built it in /data/jail/testjail, for	a jail named "testjail".  Sub-
       stitute	below as needed	with your own directory, IP address, and host-
       name.

   Setting up the Host Environment
       First, set up the real system's environment to be "jail-friendly".  For
       consistency, we will refer to the parent	box as the "host environment",
       and to the jailed virtual machine as  the  "jail	 environment".	 Since
       jails  are  implemented using IP	aliases, one of	the first things to do
       is to disable IP	services on the	host system that listen	on  all	 local
       IP  addresses  for  a  service.	If a network service is	present	in the
       host environment	that binds all available IP addresses rather than spe-
       cific IP	addresses, it may service requests sent	to jail	 IP  addresses
       if  the	jail  did  not bind the	port.  This means changing inetd(8) to
       only listen on the appropriate IP address, and so forth.	 Add the  fol-
       lowing to /etc/rc.conf in the host environment:

	     sendmail_enable="NO"
	     inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.0.2.23"
	     rpcbind_enable="NO"

       192.0.2.23  is the native IP address for	the host system, in this exam-
       ple.  Daemons that run out of inetd(8) can be easily configured to  use
       only the	specified host IP address.  Other daemons will need to be man-
       ually  configured -- for	some this is possible through rc.conf(5) flags
       entries;	for others it is necessary to modify per-application  configu-
       ration  files,  or  to  recompile  the application.  The	following fre-
       quently deployed	services  must	have  their  individual	 configuration
       files  modified	to limit the application to listening to a specific IP
       address:

       To configure sshd(8), it	is necessary to	modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

       To   configure	 sendmail(8),	 it    is    necessary	  to	modify
       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

       In  addition,  a	 number	of services must be recompiled in order	to run
       them in the host	environment.  This includes most applications  provid-
       ing  services using rpc(3), such	as rpcbind(8), nfsd(8),	and mountd(8).
       In general, applications	for which it is	not possible to	specify	 which
       IP  address  to	bind  should not be run	in the host environment	unless
       they should also	service	requests sent to jail IP addresses.   Attempt-
       ing  to	serve  NFS from	the host environment may also cause confusion,
       and cannot be easily reconfigured to use	only specific IPs, as some NFS
       services	are hosted directly from the kernel.  Any third-party  network
       software	 running  in  the  host	environment should also	be checked and
       configured so that it does not bind all IP addresses, which  would  re-
       sult  in	 those services	also appearing to be offered by	the jail envi-
       ronments.

       Once these daemons have been disabled or	fixed in the host environment,
       it is best to reboot so that all	daemons	are in a known state,  to  re-
       duce  the  potential for	confusion later	(such as finding that when you
       send mail to a jail, and	its sendmail is	down, the mail is delivered to
       the host, etc.).

   Configuring the Jail
       Start any jail for the first time without configuring the  network  in-
       terface	so  that you can clean it up a little and set up accounts.  As
       with any	machine	(virtual or not), you will need	to set	a  root	 pass-
       word,  time zone, etc.  Some of these steps apply only if you intend to
       run a full virtual server inside	the jail; others apply both  for  con-
       straining a particular application or for running a virtual server.

       Start a shell in	the jail:

	     jail -c path=/data/jail/testjail mount.devfs \
		     host.hostname=testhostname	ip4.addr=192.0.2.100 \
		     command=/bin/sh

       Assuming	 no  errors,  you  will	 end up	with a shell prompt within the
       jail.  You can now run bsdconfig(8) and do the post-install  configura-
       tion  to	 set  various  configuration options, or perform these actions
       manually	by editing /etc/rc.conf, etc.

	     	 Configure /etc/resolv.conf so that name resolution within the
		 jail will work	correctly.
	     	 Run newaliases(1) to quell sendmail(8)	warnings.
	     	 Set a root password, probably different from  the  real  host
		 system.
	     	 Set the timezone.
	     	 Add accounts for users	in the jail environment.
	     	 Install any packages the environment requires.

       You  may	 also  want to perform any package-specific configuration (web
       servers,	SSH servers, etc), patch up /etc/syslog.conf so	it logs	as you
       would like, etc.	 If you	are not	using a	virtual	server,	you  may  wish
       to  modify  syslogd(8)  in the host environment to listen on the	syslog
       socket in the jail environment; in  this	 example,  the	syslog	socket
       would be	stored in /data/jail/testjail/var/run/log.

       Exit from the shell, and	the jail will be shut down.

   Starting the	Jail
       You are now ready to restart the	jail and bring up the environment with
       all of its daemons and other programs.  Create an entry for the jail in
       /etc/jail.conf:

	     testjail {
		     path = /tmp/jail/testjail;
		     mount.devfs;
		     host.hostname = testhostname;
		     ip4.addr =	192.0.2.100;
		     interface = em0;
		     exec.start	= "/bin/sh /etc/rc";
		     exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown jail";
	     }

       To start	a virtual server environment, /etc/rc is run to	launch various
       daemons	and  services,	and  /etc/rc.shutdown is run to	shut them down
       when the	jail is	removed.  If you are running a single  application  in
       the  jail,  substitute  the  command  used to start the application for
       "/bin/sh	/etc/rc"; there	may be some script available to	 cleanly  shut
       down the	application, or	it may be sufficient to	go without a stop com-
       mand, and have jail send	SIGTERM	to the application.

       Start the jail by running:

	     jail -c testjail

       A  few  warnings	may be produced; however, it should all	work properly.
       You should be able to see inetd(8),  syslogd(8),	 and  other  processes
       running within the jail using ps(1), with the `J' flag appearing	beside
       jailed  processes.   To	see  an	 active	list of	jails, use jls(8).  If
       sshd(8) is enabled in the jail  environment,  you  should  be  able  to
       ssh(1) to the hostname or IP address of the jailed environment, and log
       in using	the accounts you created previously.

       It is possible to have jails started at boot time.  Please refer	to the
       "jail_*"	variables in rc.conf(5)	for more information.

   Managing the	Jail
       Normal  machine	shutdown  commands,  such  as  halt(8),	reboot(8), and
       shutdown(8), cannot be used successfully	within the jail.  To kill  all
       processes  from	within	a  jail, you may use one of the	following com-
       mands, depending	on what	you want to accomplish:

	     kill -TERM	-1
	     kill -KILL	-1

       This will send the SIGTERM or SIGKILL signals to	all processes  in  the
       jail -- be careful not to run this from the host	environment!  Once all
       of the jail's processes have died, unless the jail was created with the
       persist parameter, the jail will	be removed.  Depending on the intended
       use  of the jail, you may also want to run /etc/rc.shutdown from	within
       the jail.

       To shut down the	jail from the outside, simply remove it	with:

	     jail -r

       which will run any commands  specified  by  exec.stop,  and  then  send
       SIGTERM and eventually SIGKILL to any remaining jailed processes.

       The  /proc/pid/status file contains, as its last	field, the name	of the
       jail in which the process runs, or "-" to indicate that the process  is
       not running within a jail.  The ps(1) command also shows	a `J' flag for
       processes in a jail.

       You  can	 also  list/kill  processes  based  on their jail ID.  To show
       processes and their jail	ID, use	the following command:

	     ps	ax -o pid,jid,args

       To show and then	kill processes in jail number 3	use the	following com-
       mands:

	     pgrep -lfj	3
	     pkill -j 3
       or:

	     killall -j	3

   Jails and File Systems
       It is not possible to mount(8) or umount(8) any file  system  inside  a
       jail  unless  the  file	system	is  marked  jail-friendly,  the	jail's
       allow.mount parameter is	set, and the jail's  enforce_statfs  parameter
       is lower	than 2.

       Multiple	 jails	sharing	the same file system can influence each	other.
       For example, a user in one jail can fill	the file  system,  leaving  no
       space  for processes in the other jail.	Trying to use quota(1) to pre-
       vent this will not work either, as the file system quotas are not aware
       of jails	but only look at the user and group IDs.  This means the  same
       user  ID	in two jails share a single file system	quota.	One would need
       to use one file system per jail to make this work.

   Sysctl MIB Entries
       The read-only entry security.jail.jailed	can be used to determine if  a
       process is running inside a jail	(value is one) or not (value is	zero).

       The  variable  security.jail.jail_max_af_ips determines how may address
       per address family a jail may have.  The	default	is 255.

       Some MIB	variables have per-jail	settings.  Changes to these  variables
       by  a  jailed process do	not affect the host environment, only the jail
       environment.	  These	     variables	    are	     kern.securelevel,
       security.bsd.suser_enabled,	 kern.hostname,	      kern.domainname,
       kern.hostid, and	kern.hostuuid.

   Hierarchical	Jails
       By setting a jail's children.max	parameter, processes within a jail may
       be able to create jails of their	own.  These child jails	are kept in  a
       hierarchy,  with	 jails	only  able to see and/or modify	the jails they
       created (or those jails'	children).  Each jail has a  read-only	parent
       parameter,  containing  the jid of the jail that	created	it; a jid of 0
       indicates the jail is a child of	the current jail (or  is  a  top-level
       jail if the current process isn't jailed).

       Jailed  processes  are  not  allowed to confer greater permissions than
       they  themselves	 are  given,  e.g.,  if	 a  jail   is	created	  with
       allow.nomount,  it  is  not able	to create a jail with allow.mount set.
       Similarly, such restrictions as ip4.addr	and securelevel	may not	be by-
       passed in child jails.

       A child jail may	in  turn  create  its  own  child  jails  if  its  own
       children.max  parameter is set (remember	it is zero by default).	 These
       jails are visible to and	can be modified	by their parent	and all	ances-
       tors.

       Jail names reflect this hierarchy, with a full name being  an  MIB-type
       string  separated  by dots.  For	example, if a base system process cre-
       ates a jail "foo", and a	process	under that jail	creates	 another  jail
       "bar",  then the	second jail will be seen as "foo.bar" in the base sys-
       tem (though it is only seen as  "bar"  to  any  processes  inside  jail
       "foo").	 Jids on the other hand	exist in a single space, and each jail
       must have a unique jid.

       Like the	names, a child jail's path appears relative to	its  creator's
       own path.  This is by virtue of the child jail being created in the ch-
       rooted environment of the first jail.

SEE ALSO
       killall(1),   lsvfs(1),	 newaliases(1),	  pgrep(1),  pkill(1),	ps(1),
       quota(1),  jail_set(2),	vmm(4),	 devfs(5),  fdescfs(5),	 jail.conf(5),
       linprocfs(5),   linsysfs(5),   procfs(5),  rc.conf(5),  sysctl.conf(5),
       bsdconfig(8),  chroot(8),  devfs(8),  halt(8),  ifconfig(8),  inetd(8),
       jexec(8),  jls(8), mount(8), mountd(8), nfsd(8),	reboot(8), rpcbind(8),
       sendmail(8), shutdown(8), sysctl(8), syslogd(8),	umount(8)

HISTORY
       The jail	utility	 appeared  in  FreeBSD	4.0.   Hierarchical/extensible
       jails  were  introduced in FreeBSD 8.0.	The configuration file was in-
       troduced	in FreeBSD 9.1.

AUTHORS
       The jail	feature	was written by Poul-Henning Kamp  for  R&D  Associates
       who contributed it to FreeBSD.

       Robert Watson wrote the extended	documentation, found a few bugs, added
       a few new features, and cleaned up the userland jail environment.

       Bjoern A. Zeeb added multi-IP jail support for IPv4 and IPv6 based on a
       patch originally	done by	Pawel Jakub Dawidek for	IPv4.

       James Gritton added the extensible jail parameters, hierarchical	jails,
       and the configuration file.

BUGS
       It  might be a good idea	to add an address alias	flag such that daemons
       listening on all	IPs (INADDR_ANY) will not bind on that address,	 which
       would  facilitate  building a safe host environment such	that host dae-
       mons do not impose on services offered from within  jails.   Currently,
       the simplest answer is to minimize services offered on the host,	possi-
       bly  limiting it	to services offered from inetd(8) which	is easily con-
       figurable.

NOTES
       Great care should be taken when managing	directories visible within the
       jail.  For example, if a	jailed process has its current working	direc-
       tory  set  to  a	directory that is moved	out of the jail's chroot, then
       the process may gain access to the file space outside of	the jail.   It
       is  recommended	that  directories always be copied, rather than	moved,
       out of a	jail.

       In addition, there are several ways in which an unprivileged user  out-
       side  the jail can cooperate with a privileged user inside the jail and
       thereby obtain elevated privileges in the host  environment.   Most  of
       these  attacks  can  be mitigated by ensuring that the jail root	is not
       accessible to unprivileged users	in the host environment.   Regardless,
       as  a  general  rule,  untrusted	users with privileged access to	a jail
       should not be given access to the host environment.

FreeBSD	13.2			August 26, 2023			       JAIL(8)

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