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COMPARTMENT(1) General Commands Manual COMPARTMENT(1)

compartment - secure program/service wrapper

compartment [--cap CAPSET] [--chroot PATH] [--user USER] [--group GROUP] [--init PROGRAM] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--fork] /full/path/to/program

The Secure Compartment was designed to allow safe execution of priviliged and/or untrusted executables and services. It has got all features possible included, which can be used to minimize the risk of a trojanized or vulnerable program/service.

sets the defined CAPABILITY for the process. See the README file and the section LIMITATIONS for more information and examples.

chroots to the PATH defined. It has to be a valid chroot environment. See the README file for more information and examples.

runs the program with uid/euid of USER

runs the program with gid/egid of GROUP

runs PROGRAM before running the untrusted program/service, e.g. to build a chroot environment

prints detailled information what compartment does.

does not print syslog information about the use of compartment

forks if everything was set up correctly, mother process will exit.

Linux Capabilities

(see /usr/include/linux/capability.h and the README file)

Chrooting

Privileges

Setup Scripts

before running a program/service, e.g. to build a chroot environment.

Currently the kernel does not allow capabilities on processes which are not running with euid 0. Therefore compartment will exit with an error if --user and --cap is used together.

Please note that this will change for the 2.4 kernel.

No bugs are currently known

Marc Heuse <marc@suse.de>

compartment is part of the SuSE Linux Distribtution since 7.0 so it can be downloaded as an RPM file from the SuSE FTP servers. It can also be downloaded as a .tar.gz file from http://www.suse.de/~marc

It has been also part of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution since just after woody (Debian 3.0)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; Version 2.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

capset (2), chroot (1), chroot (2)