openssh and chroot

Markus Friedl markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Sat May 19 01:48:17 EST 2001


chroot is hard.

sftp-server will do chrooting at some point.
probably not to $HOME by default, but to $HOME/subdir,
because otherwise manipulation of .ssh and .forward
is possible.

sshd will not do chrooting, because setting up
a chroot-env in $HOME is a nightmare.



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