Creating and Using Oracle® Solaris Zones

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Updated: May 2015
 
 

Traversing File Systems

A zone's file system namespace is a subset of the namespace accessible from the global zone. Unprivileged processes in the global zone are prevented from traversing a non-global zone's file system hierarchy through the following means:

  • Specifying that the zone root's parent directory is owned, readable, writable, and executable by root only

  • Restricting access to directories exported by /proc

Note that attempting to access AutoFS nodes mounted for another zone will fail. The global administrator must not have auto maps that descend into other zones.