sftp / scp and chroot - is there an easy way?[SOLVED...]

Post by **update** » Mon 2. Jul 2007, 10:00

Good morning,
today I came across the following question:

Is there an easy way to offer users the possibility to use sftp / scp (with winscp for example) and keep them chrooted within their user dirs? Right now this isn't possible and a lot of information is dealing with building a chroot environment by copying a lot of files to and fro to build such a jail.

But I am looking for a possibility to achieve this without having to build such a chrooting jail, using some wrapper perhaps or an alternative shell or something like that.

With normal ftp it is quite easy but rather insecure compared to sftp / scp...

Perhaps some of you have been dealing with that already in the past and are willing to hover some hints over to me

Greetings
claus

Goran · Post by **Goran** » Mon 2. Jul 2007, 11:11

Check out: http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/index.php

DeXXus · Post by **DeXXus** » Mon 2. Jul 2007, 22:07

Unqualified to answer, but came across the link below. Dunno if it applies!

http://www.unixadmintalk.com/f67/re-any ... hd-292665/

Post by **update** » Tue 3. Jul 2007, 10:22

Many thanks for your answers!

Thought about a patched version too and/or building virtual servers, but didn't like the need to shift around such a lot of files or patch and recompile already smoothly running applications...
Found another one by myself: http://mysecureshell.sourceforge.net
Just tested it and it seems to work - really simple to install too.
I didn't find anything about s ecurity flaws yet but as a changing root device it is doing it's job. Has a lot of possible config settings too. Hmmh... Will go on testing