Re: OpenSSH, Chroot, and Public Key issue

From: Nathan Jackson-Eeles (c.cured_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/17/05

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    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:26:01 +0200
To: David Coley <dcoley@davidcoley.com>

    Hi David,

    It sounds like the sshd cannot find the users authorized_keys file.
    What is the value of $HOME from a chroot'ed user?

    Nathan

    On 8/16/05, David Coley <dcoley@davidcoley.com> wrote:
    > Hello all,
    >
    > I recently built a chroot jail from scratch. I'm not using the /./ patch
    > but built a custom one based on the http://intmainvoid.nl/?chroot+shell
    > instructions.
    >
    > Now everything is working for the chroot and the secure shell, except for
    > public key authentication.
    >
    > Users who are not in the chroot can use public keys, those who are can't.
    >
    > I would appreciate any help at all. I've been working on this for days and
    > can not figure out what's wrong:
    >
    > Chroot users are in the following directory:
    > /home/sftp/[username]/home/[username]/

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