jexec as user?

[Miroslav Lachman]

Christos Chatzaras wrote on 2019/11/19 14:09:
> 
> 
>> On 19 Nov 2019, at 15:02, mike tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/19/2019 6:42 AM, Ronald Klop wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to jexec into a jail as a regular user. Or to enable
>>> that somewhere?
>>> Or is the way to do such a thing to set up ssh in the jail?
>>>
>> On 11.3 at least, does not the built in functionality of jexec do what
>> you need ?
>>
>> jexec [-l] [-u username | -U username] jail [command ...]
>>
>> # jexec -U testuser 3 csh
>> testuser at cacticonsole:/ % id
>> uid=1005(testuser) gid=1005(testuser) groups=1005(testuser)
>> testuser at cacticonsole:/ %
>>
> 
> I think he wants to use jexec as a normal user from the main OS.
> 
> If he wants to run jexec as root and login to jail as user then your command works.

If you want to use jexec as normal user in host, look at sysutils/jailme 
from ports:

https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/jailme/
This version is installed setuid and does some sanity checking to ensure 
the username and UID match between the jail and the host system.

WWW: https://github.com/Intermedix/jailme

Miroslav Lachman

PS: I never used jailme personally