How to Install and Uninstall jailkit Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "jailkit" package

Please follow the steps below to install jailkit on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                jailkit
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "jailkit" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall jailkit on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                jailkit
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the jailkit package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: jailkit
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.21-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 303
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), python3:any
Filename: pool/universe/j/jailkit/jailkit_2.21-2_amd64.deb
Size: 67732
MD5sum: bcadc1b1f18d9dd5e65c8a8576869f7d
SHA1: c3028036d87c54f0f46628386080fca24e08e655
SHA256: eee567562f4d9b9585705796fb7ab0fa1bfc9f74cf03b9e67d8d55c7e4963020
SHA512: c8ba157422fb683f9c7ce9bab579ccf18f9cfc98543bd19d38d157a563280f840efde962d3ba61945f16e6e3b2a03ae4e86289dfb4ff0b4d4f749239b633e1c8
Homepage: https://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/
Description-en: tools to make chroot jails easily
Jailkit is a set of utilities to limit user accounts to specific files using
chroot() and or specific commands. Setting up a chroot shell, a shell limited
to some specific command or a daemon inside a chroot jail is a lot easier and
can be automated using these utilities.
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Jailkit is a specialized tool that is developed with a focus on security. It
will abort in a secure way if the configuration, the system setup or the
environment is not 100% secure, and it will send useful log messages that
explain what is wrong to syslog.
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Jailkit is known to be used in network security appliances from several
leading IT security firms, Internet servers from several large enterprise
organizations, Internet servers from Internet service providers, as well as
many smaller companies and private users that need to secure login in services
or in daemon processes.
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Currently, Jailkit provide jails for cvs, git, scp sftp, ssh, rsync, procmail,
openvpn, vnc, etc.
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Jailkit make available the following commands: jk_check, jk_chrootlaunch,
jk_chrootsh, jk_cp, jk_init, jk_jailuser, jk_list, jk_lsh, jk_socketd,
jk_uchroot, jk_update.
Description-md5: d038ebcbeb66f98849b68a202646dbf6