chroot'd SFTP

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Sun Jul 29 13:28:11 EST 2007


Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:46:13AM +0300, Richard Storm wrote:
>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
>> Match user share
>>       X11Forwarding no
>>       AllowTCPForwarding no
>>       ForceCommand /usr/libexec/sftp-server -C %d
>>
>> pkill sshd; /usr/sbin/sshd
>> and done :)
> 
> Couldn't one just use a wrapper script doing the equivalent of the
> patch and then exec:ing sftp-server ?

You could, but if you do the chroot before exec'ing sftp-server then you 
would need to put all of the libraries used by sftp-server (and /dev 
entries, and whatever else it wants at startup) inside each chroot.

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