[plug] debian etch + vsftpd does not chroot jail users

[Denis Brown]

At 07:16 PM 17/04/2008, mccabedj wrote:
>Richard Meyer wrote:
>>To prove whether this is correct, bring down the ftp daemon and connect
>>from windows again - if you can, my supposition is right, and you'll
>>have to use some other way to jail the client.
>
>>>User "badboy" has entry in /etc/passwd like so...
>>>badboy:x:1002:1002:Bad Boy,,,:/home/badboy/./:/bin/bash
>
>I imagine that you could replace /bin/bash with something like
>    pola-run -B --prog=/bin/bash -fw=/home/badboy
>after having installed plash from
>http://plash.beasts.org
>
>This would also mean that badboy couldn't escape the jail by doing a plain 
>ssh.
Hmmm... sweet :-)

This has distinct possibilities - thanks for the lead.   As a side issue 
however I would still like to get vsftpd working as advertised, even if 
purely to advance my knowledge of their config.

Meantime a plash download is on today's to-do list.

Thanks,
Denis