[plug] Simple sftpd with chroot

Trevor Phillips T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au
Thu May 13 17:32:11 WST 2004


On Wednesday 12 May 2004 15:59, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> I'm looking for a simple, easy to set up a way of allowing sftpd/ssh with a
> chroot for certain users - preferrably to their home dirs.
>
> I've looked at vsftpd, which does this - but it doesn't seem to do ssl,
> only normal old ftp.
>
> I've looked at rssh - but it requires a custom chroot dir with all the guff
> copied in for a normal chroot shell area.

Ok, so it's only been a bit over 24 hours, but no response yet. Is this then 
yet another one of those "Is possible, should be easy, but isn't" cases that 
seem to crop up time & time again with Linux? (Just because I CAN implement 
complex solutions doesn't always mean I have the time and motivation TO 
implement complex solutions. Sorry - just ranting a bit. ^_^)

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