Jails and multicore boxes

[Norberto Meijome]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:20:06 +0100
Erik Cederstrand <erik at cederstrand.dk> wrote:

> You'll have to answer that yourself. How valuable is your data? What are 
> you trying to protect? If you're worrying about getting cracked and used 
> as a spam bot, jails are no more secure than a non-jail system.

Maybe some qualification is needed here.

If your mail jail gets broken into, then it will still be used as a spambot.

But your host (the machine in which your jails run in) wouldn't have been compromised, necessarily, by the fact that the jail got compromised. Having root on a jail  (if that's what we are talking about by 'compromised' ) shouldn't affect your host machine. Unless there is some other vulnerability that can be used, of course.

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