Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 11:23:46 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: Turner Litigation Services <turnerlit@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh - connect to directory outside of /user/home - permission denied Message-ID: <4840FD02.1010306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e082ca1e0805301828t314bf43cv57bca29d2c678d49@mail.gmail.com> References: <e082ca1e0805301828t314bf43cv57bca29d2c678d49@mail.gmail.com>
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Turner Litigation Services wrote:
> How do you allow ssh to permit connections to a folder outside of the /home
> folder of the user loggin in to ssh? For example, i want to sync two
> folders
> (using unison) on different machines and need to ssh to the remote folder ..
>
> but the folder is a shared folder outside of my home folder
> (i.e. /user/data/pub).
>
> ssh [username]@[servername] works to get me into the user folder and I can
> cd
> to the folder I need to access (and have proper perms there)
>
> But, I need to connect to the folder directly to use unison (file/directory
> synchronization tool).
>
> ssh [username]@[severname] /usr/data/pub/ gives permission denied errors.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You are specifying a command to run once ssh connects, not the path to
chdir to.
> I've heard the directory path needs to be relative to the home path but the
> following does not work either:
>
> ssh [username]@[servername] ../../../usr/data/pub/ (where the default
> directory for ssh logins is /usr/home/[username]/.)
>
> I've tried formatting variations of the above themes to no avail and suspect
>
> there's a setting somewhere to allow what directories ssh connections can be
>
> made to, or creating a link in [users] home directory to the public
> directory. Your help would be appreciated.
>
You could use something similar to:
ssh [username]@[servername] 'cd /usr/data/pub; unison .........'
HTH,
Yuri
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