Chrooted sftp on rhel3
Carl Reynolds
redhat-list at hyperbole-software.com
Fri Jun 15 16:37:10 UTC 2007
Johan Booysen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm doing some tests setting up an sftp server, with setting up a chroot
> jail for ftp users.
>
> <snip...>
>
> Any ideas on how to restrict access so ftp users are locked into their
> own home directories - if that is even possible? It doesn't seem like
> much of an issue to me, but I'd appreciate your thoughts.
>
>
>
>
I did this five or six years ago. I don't remember the details, but I
can tell you it is possible to do. I seem to remember that I somehow set
the chrootpath to /home/<user-directory> for each user. This made that
directory the root for that user when the sign on so there is no way for
them to cd in /home. Thus they can't see the other users' directories.
The advantage of doing it this way is that it is far less resource
intensive than setting up a virtual machine for each user as they sign on.
Carl.
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