Re: How security of chroot?

From: jon (jonsnews_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/30/03


Date: 30 Jun 2003 03:27:36 -0700

Keith, If you're going to use FTP, you should be using vsFTPd
http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ which includes chroot functionality with a
simple...
chroot_local_user=YES
...setting. You can also pick & choose which users will be chrooted,
etc. Check it out.

If you're wanting to do chroot at ssh level (hence posting to THIS
newsgroup?) there's been a bit of discussion about this in a recent
posting earlier in this group...
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=20030628171315.6130a5ab.alex.ferguson%40NOSPAMdartmouth.edu&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.security.ssh



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