Re: [zones-discuss] need help with zonecfg and networking

2012-02-08 Thread Glenn Faden
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Re: [zones-discuss] Zones in Trusted Extensions and Display Variables

2011-04-29 Thread Glenn Faden
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Re: [zones-discuss] Possible to use zones for hardening? Security?

2010-10-01 Thread Glenn Faden
. Is it possible to shut down internet connection to the global zone, or not? And if it is possible, how do I do it? Just by ifconfig e1000g0 down or something similar? Yes. That is sufficient. --Glenn ORACLE ® Glenn Faden | Senior Principal Software Engineer Phone: +1 650 786 4003 | Mobile: +1

Re: [zones-discuss] Possible to use zones for hardening? Security?

2010-09-30 Thread Glenn Faden
in a zone. If you are using VirtualBox, you can use the same networking tricks to get isolation as you would use for a zone. ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org -- ORACLE ® Glenn Faden | Senior Principal Software Engineer

Re: [zones-discuss] Possible to use zones for hardening? Security?

2010-09-29 Thread Glenn Faden
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Re: [zones-discuss] zone with X

2010-07-27 Thread Glenn Faden
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Re: [zones-discuss] zoneadm clone -m copy does not really copy on ZFS zonepath

2010-02-16 Thread Glenn Faden
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Christine Tran christine.t...@gmail.com wrote: Does the data really need to be under the zonepath? If you were to do something like: zfs create -o mountpoint=/stuff rpool/stuff mkdir /stuff/z1 /stuff/z2 zonecfg -z z1 add fs set

Re: [zones-discuss] Shareing files between zones

2009-09-13 Thread Glenn Faden
Mike Gerdts wrote: A non-global zone cannot be an NFS server (without a third-party userland NFS server implementation). Also, NFS mounting a file system in a non-global zone that is exported from that zone's global zone is not supported. It may seem to work, but there is a known deadlock

Re: [zones-discuss] Problem booting previous working zones after reboot.

2009-08-13 Thread Glenn Faden
maco wrote: Glenn, Thanks for the quick reply. I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11, but have kept it up to date with the package manager. The only mounted ROOT filsystem is the main one mounted on /. I've since tried to make the zone ready with: r...@gaia:/zones# zoneadm -z poseidon ready

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-06-30 Thread Glenn Faden
Moore, Joe wrote: William Roche wrote: Now about the automounter, I share Nico's point of view, but as far as I know nothing like that already exist, and No, the automounter or a mount request isn't 'clever' enough (or customized enough) yet to handle NFS data shared by the global zone and

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-06-30 Thread Glenn Faden
Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Le 30 juin 09 à 16:13, Moore, Joe a écrit : William Roche wrote: Now about the automounter, I share Nico's point of view, but as far as I know nothing like that already exist, and No, the automounter or a mount request isn't 'clever' enough (or customized enough) yet

Re: [zones-discuss] Forcing all FS traffic into a global zone

2009-06-30 Thread Glenn Faden
Roman V Shaposhnik wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:00 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: The problem at hand is a reentrance issue in the VM. Could you, please, point me to the most authoritative CR that captures this issue? Hasn't it been mentioned in this thread already? I

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-06-29 Thread Glenn Faden
Steve Lawrence wrote: I think each zone's automounter is smart enough to use lofs instead of nfs for mounts from a non-global to a global zone. Please explain how this is possible. How can the automounter convert an nfs specification of a global zone pathname into a pathname which can be

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-06-29 Thread Glenn Faden
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:31:20AM -0700, Glenn Faden wrote: Steve Lawrence wrote: I think each zone's automounter is smart enough to use lofs instead of nfs for mounts from a non-global to a global zone. Please explain how this is possible. How can

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-06-29 Thread Glenn Faden
James Carlson wrote: On Jun 29, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Glenn Faden glenn.fa...@sun.com wrote: Steve Lawrence wrote: I think each zone's automounter is smart enough to use lofs instead of nfs for mounts from a non-global to a global zone. Please explain how this is possible. How can

Re: [zones-discuss] Can you plese let me know whether OpenSolaris 2009.6 support sparse zonnes?

2009-06-04 Thread Glenn Faden
Edward Pilatowicz wrote: the inherit-pkg-dir property is only applicable to solaris distros which use SVR4 packaging. (this means solaris 10 and SXCE). it is not applicable to opensolaris system. using it on opensolaris based systems will result in undefined behaviors and unsupporable

Re: [zones-discuss] Update Grants, Merge BrandZ and Zones Communities

2009-02-10 Thread Glenn Faden
I would like to nominate myself as a Core Contributor, having implemented several zones features (labeled zones, defrouter, cross-zone FIFOs, etc.). FYI, Trusted Extensions is also using branded zones at this time and has an active case to for a new brand called labeled. I am currently a Core

Re: [zones-discuss] Setting of DISPLAY for Trusted Extensions labelled CDE sessions

2008-12-18 Thread Glenn Faden
In S10u6 labeled zones must use TCP sockets to connect to the global zone Xserver. The DISPLAY variable must be set to either global-zone-hostname:0 or localhost:0. Some code in X11 will fallback to using localhost:0 when :0 (specifying local transport, eg. UNIX domain sockets) fails. S10u5

Re: [zones-discuss] Package minimization question

2008-12-12 Thread Glenn Faden
Christine, From the package list I assume you are running Solaris 10, not OpenSolaris. I suppose you can leave out the X11-related packages, but it isn't a valid assumption that a headless system doesn't need these packages. X11 applications can be remotely displayed using X protocol, or via

Re: [zones-discuss] shared IP with defrouter .VS. exclusive IP

2008-12-09 Thread Glenn Faden
fu qilai wrote: Hi,Can I defrouter my non-global zone to match exclusive IP model for Solaris 10 10/08? [Feature:The ability to set the default router through an optional defrouter property in a shared-IP zone added. ] (1)A machine connects to LAN1 via NIC1 and LAN2 via NIC2 . (VLAN)

Re: [zones-discuss] Shared-ip zones with defrouter

2008-10-07 Thread Glenn Faden
Weiberle wrote: On 10/06/08 21:38, Glenn Faden wrote: Max, The default route option is not specific to TX zones. However, it is intended for environments where your zones aren't sharing the same physical interfaces. This feature sets the default route for an interface so I don't think

Re: [zones-discuss] Shared-ip zones with defrouter

2008-10-06 Thread Glenn Faden
Max, The default route option is not specific to TX zones. However, it is intended for environments where your zones aren't sharing the same physical interfaces. This feature sets the default route for an interface so I don't think it will provide the functionality you are looking for.

Re: [zones-discuss] zones/SNAP design

2008-08-26 Thread Glenn Faden
Jerry, For Trusted Extensions in OpenSolaris, we plan to use a new labeled brand for zones which will be derived from the new ipkg brand. So your proposal also affects labeled branded zones. I would like to explore the plan to delegate these datasets to the zone. Since the zone's root dataset

Re: [zones-discuss] Default Routes for Zones

2008-01-29 Thread Glenn Faden
Your proposed suggestion made sense to me, but it was deferred while we worked on exclusive IP stacks for zones, and other enhancements. However, it seems that this problem still requires a solution, so I've submitted the following project proposal to PSARC: 2008/057 Default Route For Zones

[zones-discuss] Performance observations when hundreds of zones are made ready

2008-01-21 Thread Glenn Faden
When deploying zones in Trusted Extensions some customers want to boot many zones (hundreds) into the ready state. Since each zone has a unique label and zfs dataset their filesystems be used by label-aware services in the global zone such as NFS and sendmail, even when no processes (except

Re: [zones-discuss] dbus in local zones

2008-01-14 Thread Glenn Faden
I thought I answered that. The dbus-daemon is using a UNIX domain rendezvous file in /tmp in the global zone. The non-global zones have their own instances of /tmp, so the rendezvous file does not exist in their namespace. Even if it did, there would be other problems because the devices that

Re: [zones-discuss] Problem with roles opening Console

2007-11-08 Thread Glenn Faden
Can you clarify whether you are seeing this problem with TJDS and/or TCDE? Also, please move this discussion to security-discuss. That is where Trusted Extensions discussions should take place. --Glenn Danny Hayes wrote: We are running Solaris 10 U4 w/ Trusted Extensions on x86. When we open

Re: [zones-discuss] NFS: Cannot share a zfs dataset added to a labeled zone

2007-11-03 Thread Glenn Faden
I took another look at this configuration, and have yet another suggestion. Instead of specifying the zfs dataset using zonecfg's datatset keyword, where it is mounted by the zone, you can just specify that it should be mounted by zoneadm, instead. I previously suggested doing this:

Re: [zones-discuss] [security-discuss] NFS: Cannot share a zfs dataset added to a labeled zone

2007-10-31 Thread Glenn Faden
There are some interesting ordering issues with respect to the steps required for this configuration: 1. The dataset's mount point must be within the zone's root path for it to be mounted read-write within that zone (you can't use lofs). 2. The dataset should not be mounted (by the global

Re: [zones-discuss] NFS: Cannot share a zfs dataset added to a labeled zone

2007-10-29 Thread Glenn Faden
I posted an earlier reply to zones-discuss, but I didn't copy all of the forums in the original posting. I'm doing so now. I am also correcting some errors in my earlier reply: Yes, it is possible to share a zfs dataset that has been added to a labeled zone. Set the mountpoint property of

Re: [zones-discuss] NFS: Cannot share a zfs dataset added to a labeled zone

2007-10-27 Thread Glenn Faden
Please try the following: Set the mountpoint property of your dataset zone/data to be within the restricted zone's root. For example: # zfs set mountpoint=/zone/needtoknow/root/zone/data zone/data That will cause the dataset to appear automatically as a read-write mount point in the

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and 3D applications

2007-07-10 Thread Glenn Faden
It is not practical for each zone to have its own X server. The X server runs in the global zone, and can be accessed from non-global zones. You can also run Xnest in a non-global zone, but the actual keyboard/mouse/display are still under the control of the global zone. When Trusted

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-14 Thread Glenn Faden
Trusted Exensions already includes this functionality, although the implementation is not exactly what is being requested in this thread. In the case of Trusted Extensions, the global zone administrator determines which labeled zone directories may be exported via NFS. There is unique dfstab

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-14 Thread Glenn Faden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to agree, and the basic server consolidation target just makes sense. I want to pretend a zone is the box I used to have and not have to bump my nose on a funny behaviour or exceptions. However, there are some wrinkles: 2) Due to the above, it seems like the

[zones-discuss] Re: RE: ?: named pipes between zones using shared filesystem

2006-12-12 Thread Glenn Faden
Names pipes may be used between zones when Trusted Extensions is enabled. The policy for data flow between zones is generally more restrictive when TX is enabled, but in this case it is slightly more open. The specific policy difference is implemented in the function tsol_fifo_access().

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: RE: ?: named pipes between zones using shared filesystem

2006-12-12 Thread Glenn Faden
Dan Price wrote: On Tue 12 Dec 2006 at 10:47AM, Glenn Faden wrote: Names pipes may be used between zones when Trusted Extensions is enabled. The policy for data flow between zones is generally more restrictive when TX is enabled, but in this case it is slightly more open. The specific policy

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: RE: ?: named pipes between zones using shared filesystem

2006-12-12 Thread Glenn Faden
Steffen Weiberle wrote: Is it safe to generalize that non-LOFS file systems in Solaris 10 do not allow cross-zone interaction? procfs does not. namefs does not. tmpfs does not. sockfs does not. doors does not. What about all the others (I can't even name them all)? Doors can be used in

Re: [zones-discuss] Question on user account config with zones

2006-07-31 Thread Glenn Faden
Paul Kraus wrote: On 7/31/06, Steffen Weiberle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Home directories are more problematic; you will need to loopback mount them into the local zones. Is the underlying problem being worked on, or is it worth an RFE to make this transparent (automount if remote,

Re: [zones-discuss] Question on user account config with zones

2006-07-31 Thread Glenn Faden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no way for the non-global zone automounter to convert these automounts from NFS to LOFS. Firstly, there is no API for the non-global zone to determine that the NFS server is, in fact, the global zone sharing the same kernel. It can easily tell this