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Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:24:13 -0400
From:      Ken Ebling <deevil@deevil.homeunix.org>
To:        Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Chroot environment for ssh
Message-ID:  <20020815162413.GA5510@deevil.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020815134341.GO1144@juno.paeps.cx>
References:  <20020815134341.GO1144@juno.paeps.cx>

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Hi Philip,

I've found CHRSH to be very useful for chrooting shell accounts.  The setup is very picky (for obvious reasons) but it's not
complicated.

http://www.aarongifford.com/computers/chrsh.html

Ken Ebling

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:43:41PM +0200, Philip Paeps wrote:
> Hi guys -
> 
> I'm in the process of setting up a form of fileserver, and I'd like for my
> users to be able to work only in their home directories, not anywhere else.  I
> would like to use SSH for the connections, as opposed to FTP, but I don't want
> users to be able to log into an interactive shell (only SCP/SFTP) and I don't
> want them to 'escape' out of their home directories.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on how I'd go about doing this?  I've been fiddling with
> chrsh (a 'chroot shell') but it's not really what I want.
> 
> (I was debating with myself whether to post this on -questions of -security, I
> hope I chose wisely in the end).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>  - Philip
> 
> -- 
> Philip Paeps
> philip@paeps.cx
> http://www.paeps.cx/
> 
> +32 486 114 720
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