* Olivier <olivier@lx.student.wau.nl> [2004-08-16 22:56:20 +0200]: > I've packaged jailkit, a collection of tools to create and maintain > chroot jails. The package is lintian clean. My pgp key is checked by > some debian developers already, so now I need a sponsor. This message reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask; I'm sure this has come up before, so I'm asking this more from the standpoing of "what are the reasons" rather than "someone should think about doing this"...anyway, I thought it would be kinda neat to have chroot versions of packages that people (...who are running servers) could install and already have a "jailed" environment. Something like where the current package name is "bind9", a package named "bind9-chroot", etc. Of course, this is something that people can do themselves (especially with the availability of tools like the above jailkit), but it might go a mildly significant way to bettering general Internet security if anybody could just do it "out of the box" so to speak. -- John ! "On two occasions, I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if Buttery! you put into your machine wrong figures, will the right www.io.c! answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind om/~john! of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
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