[plug] Simple sftpd with chroot

raven at themaw.net raven at themaw.net
Fri May 14 21:57:38 WST 2004


On Thu, 13 May 2004, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> 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. ^_^)

But what are you asking.

chrooted ssh aka sftp or chrooted ftp over ssl?

Ian




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