P.S. - RE: [redhat-list] updates pending question

[Constance Morris]

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Subject: Re: P.S. - RE: [redhat-list] updates pending question

Alfred Hovdestad wrote:
> On 10/05/13 12:06 PM, Constance Morris wrote:
>>
>> I found an article titled ' can I set up sftp to chroot only 
>> particular users in rhel' and I followed the instructions of 
>> modifying the /etc/ssh/sshd_config to have:
>>
>> Comment out the #Subsystem 	sftp	/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
>> And put this as active = subsystem	sftp	internal-sftp
>>
>> * Now my sshd_config was different than above. It had:
>> Subsystem 	sftp	/bin/sh -c 'umas 0002; /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server'
>>
>> Exactly like that. But I tried the above by commenting it out and 
>> adding the other line and the rest of the data as follows:
>>
>> Match Group www
>> 	ChrootDirectory /faculty-staff/%u
>> 	AllowTcpForwarding no
>> 	ForceCommand internal-sftp
>> 	X11Forwarding no
>>
>> And then did as it said and created a user, made a directory folder 
>> for that user in /faculty-staff and changed ownership and permissions.
>> Then it said to restart the sshd service and upon doing so I got the 
>> following error message:
>>
>> Starting sshd: /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 122: Bad configuration option:
>> Match
>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options
>>                                                             [FAILED]
>>
>> Any thoughts? The comments on the article mentioned there being a 
>> problem with selinux.
>>
> What version of Red Hat are you running?  I'm thinking that it is 
> likely RHEL 5.  The Match keyword for openssh was introduced with 
> openssh 5 (RHEL 6).  That might be why your predecessor had installed 
> a newer version of openssh (outside of RHEL).
>
> And if sshd isn't running your faculty won't be able to login.  You 
> may have to re-install the custom version of openssh to resolve this issue.

I really don't think it's an sshd problem, at this point. She's got other (many other?) users who have no trouble; it's just these three, which is why I'm strongly leaning towards them having Web Expression on their workstations misconfigured.

    mark
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P.S. Now Hassan can't log in and gets the same error message as jadams 'There's no site named /faculty-staff/username'.

Constance