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Date:      Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:27:18 -0500
From:      Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how to configure host login account to use jail?
Message-ID:  <50D722D6.5070001@a1poweruser.com>
In-Reply-To: <50D71941.10306@FreeBSD.org>
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 23/12/2012 13:11, Fbsd8 wrote:
>> Ok but as my question asks, how do you configure things
>> to get that to work? I am after the details.
> 
> You need to run an instance of sshd in each jail.  Because sshd defaults
> to binding to INADDR_ANY, you need to modify the sshd configuration in
> the host system, so it binds to a specific address, otherwise it will
> likely block out the jailed sshd's:
> 
> ListenAddress 192.0.2.1
> ListenAddress 2001:DB8::1
> ListenAddress 127.0.0.1
> ListenAddress ::1
> 
> sshd in the jails doesn't need any similar configuration change.
> 
> You don't need user accounts in your host system for the jail users --
> each jail can have it's own passwd file etc.  However, it can be useful
> to make sure that UID numbers for regular users in host and jails don't
> overlap.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> 

What does the remote ssh login command look like?
ssh on the host does not use the standard port 22.
It uses 2299 instead. this stopped all the ssh break-in attempts.



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