jailing transfer-only accounts

[James Dennis]

This has been discussed quite a bit on this mailing list. The general idea is that most of the way's of jailing people are '.' hacks. That's what my patch on chrootssh.sourceforge.net is. Until a proper method is devised and approved by the OpenSSH crew, an officially supported jail function won't be appearing anytime soon. The OpenSSH guys are great at making sure everything is up to par and I definitly appreciate what they're doing, but that's also why there isn't an official jailing feature yet.
Anyone up to the challenge? I'd be happy to help if anyone is seriously interested.
-James
P.S. chrootssh.sourceforge.net has the '.' hack and may or may not be useful. It is not officially supported, but it works quite well for me.

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:54:49 +0200
"Hans Nohack" <hans at nohack.de> wrote:

> hello,
> 
> we need to transfer files in a secure way with different partners and
> clients.
> at the momet we're using commercial ssh because we found it the only way to
> transfer files in a jailed environment and without offering a login shell.
> we'd like to use openssh but found only some patches and wrapper scripts but
> nothing "official" to do what we need.
> i could image (and read on many lists) that lots of people seem to need this
> feature.
> will it be part of the "official" openssh some day?
> 
> thanks
> hans
> 
> 
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