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Old 12-24-2007
need to restrict user to his home dir

Hello,

i need to create a user who's access is restricted only to his home directory and below,

i restricted his pty access by adding 'no-pty' to the options of the ssh key in authorized_keys file. However, sftp access still allows this user access to all my file system

thanks
# 2  
Old 12-24-2007
Then look at the groups he belongs to and determine what permissions each of your directories should have.
# 3  
Old 12-24-2007
You could look at using chroot to restrict the permissions.
Basically it makes that shell think its "/" is its home, and so it cannot move to a directory above.
If you google for chroot ftpd, you should find an example of the general process.
# 4  
Old 12-24-2007
my user belongs to nogroup

googled my way through...

scponly looks like it could work, but setuiding the original binaries makes me uneasy (maybe because i don't know enough about what could happen). Main Page - Scponly wiki

rssh has been used widely but isn't updated often. rssh - restricted shell for scp/sftp

Or else i can create a shell to use the sftp binary and support chroot: HOWTO: chroot SFTP (only)

so, 1) with S10 do i really need to build my own sftp/ scponly shell?
2) if i do need to create my own solution, which of the above 3 do you suggest?

thanks

Last edited by lidram; 12-24-2007 at 11:49 PM..
# 5  
Old 01-03-2008
i used the chroot sftp. very easy to setup and works as it should. I edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config to use the newly created sftp binary rather than the default Solaris one.

I do recommend to use ssh options such as no-pty to restrict user's ssh access, rather than the ones suggested by the page
# 6  
Old 02-06-2008
SFTP Setup

Hi ,

Can you please tell me how do you setup sftp..

Regards

Pradeep Rajput
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