sftp and chroot?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jan 16, 2009, at 15:13, Kevin D. Clark wrote:

> Paul Lussier writes:
>
>> Has anyone set up sftp in a chroot environment before?
>> My IT guy is trying and having a helluva time on Centos 5...
>>
>> If anyone knows of any gotchas or tricks I could pass over to him,  
>> I'm
>> sure he'd very much appreciate it.
>
> I was tangentially involved with somebody setting this up recently.
> The guy who I was interacting with told me that it was his
> understanding that this worked with OpenSSH version 5.x but there was
> some problem in 4.x.  I put together some new RPMs for him to solve
> this problem, and I haven't heard back from him yet...I assume he got
> it working...

Been there, done that myself too. I can't recall all the details at  
the moment, there was also general ssh chrooting involved, and some  
part of the equation definitely required building patched ssh packages  
to get it working.

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Jarod Wilson
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