chroot ssh

Rob rob at OhReally.com
Fri Apr 16 20:30:49 UTC 2004


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vrijdag 16 april 2004 18:00, j.travis:
> I am very confused by this idea of a '.' as a directory name,
> especially since '.' and '..' already exists in every directory and
> also because of these errors:
>
> [root at devel2 testssh]# mkdir /home/testchroot/.
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/testchroot/.    ': File
> exists [root at devel2 testssh]# mkdir /home/testchroot/./userx
> [root at devel2 testssh]# cd /home/testchroot/./userx
> [root at devel2 userx]# pwd
> /home/testchroot/userx

You don't need to create the directory /what/ever/./
Instead of using the directory /what/ever/ in your config, you 
use /what/ever/./
Ssh then chroots to /what/ever/
./ is not a real directory, it's just a directive for ssh...

Rob

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