Jails/Mac OS X

Discussion in 'General' started by ronjon, Aug 17, 2009.

  1. ronjon

    ronjon New Member

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    Are FreeBSD Jails available on Mac OS X?

    Perhaps an equivalent?

    Thx,
    Ron
     
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    vermaden Well-Known Member

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  3. SirDice

    SirDice Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    Nope.
     
  4. z3R0

    z3R0 New Member

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    I think you are pretty much out of luck unless Jails get ported to Mac OS X (it wouldn't be a bad idea!). chroot is available, but no where near Jails in terms of functionality.

    virtual hosts might work for multiple domains, but you can really have a custom apache install for each. (i.e. perl for one site, php for another and python for a third) unless you don't mind having all three modules running at once. This of course is a bad practice as it increases the attack surface. Jails solve this and allow users, but alas they are not available in Mac OS X.