Rooting FreeBSD , Privilege Escalation using Jails

[Roger Marquis]

Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> writes:
>> Dumb question: the jail command can refuse to run unless the
>> parent of a jail root is 0700. Would that work? No kernel hack
>> required.
>
> All right, this is getting ridiculous.

It's far past the point of being ridiculous, so far in fact that I would
not be surprised if someone employed by Redhat, Canonical or the FSF was
behind paid to astroturf.  The tactic may have worked for Gnome, KDE, and
a large number of apps but FreeBSD coders are generally more experienced
than that.

Roger Marquis