Re: chroot-ing users coming in via SSH and/or SFTP?

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Hello,

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:23:02PM -0700 or thereabouts, Brett Glass wrote:
> The users depositing files on the server shouldn't be allowed to see what
> one another are doing or to grope around on the system, so it'd be a good
> idea to chroot them into home directories, as is commonly done with FTP.
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> However, OpenSSH (or at least FreeBSD's version of it) doesn't seem to ha=
ve a
> mechanism that allows users doing SSH, SCP, or SFTP to be chroot-ed into =
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> specific directory. What is the most effective and elegant way to do this=
? I've=20
> seen some crude patches that allow you to put a /. in the home directory =
specified
> in /etc/passwd, but these are specific to versions of the "portable" Open=
SSH
> and none of the diffs seem to match FreeBSD's files exactly.=20

     go for /usr/ports/shells/scponly, it also has ability to use
     chroot.


     	Cheers,

	Martin

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