How to Install and Uninstall jailkit Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "jailkit" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install jailkit on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall jailkit on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                jailkit
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the jailkit package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: jailkit
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.21-4
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: 280
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), python3:any
Filename: pool/universe/j/jailkit/jailkit_2.21-4_amd64.deb
Size: 70706
MD5sum: ae8ba9c10acee04814a3f779b7967d98
SHA1: efdf0c33db017f7d4e5245e907d6d03a8b1a4bf4
SHA256: b76ce33c06e1261126be3cc87fcc63c4e1137a0677f569739e5d5a43d96ae0cd
SHA512: 29584c5f2b33e4624ceadab1038ff9e095d70afdef0e8c2e21d63ede2163f9059f8ec6b0bcb2ca25dff0df57b6613f2a3494fb87a029e820e0b9042d8658c57f
Homepage: https://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/
Description-en: tools to generate 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: 3d23fb6efa2f91edca720503251eaeb4