Re: Anyone with a technique for accomplishing chroot using sftp

From: Bill Moran (wmoran_at_potentialtech.com)
Date: 08/15/05

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To: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org>

    Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> wrote:
    > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:16:38PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
    > >
    > > I've done a number of web searches, and haven't seen any solid answers.
    > >
    > > It seems like there's no built-in support for chroot using the
    > > sftp-server program that comes with OpenSSH. (I'm using 3.6.1p1 on
    > > FreeBSD). Am I mistaken? If not, does anyone have a working hack to
    > > get chroot capability?
    >
    > Yes. It's called rssh:
    >
    > http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/index.shtml
    >
    > Works fine for me.

    Thanks to you, and everyone else who suggested rssh.

    I'm somewhat surprised that this is still this difficult to accomplish. 

    -- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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