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Operating Systems Linux Debian SSH chroot jail problems Post 302412911 by pokey144 on Wednesday 14th of April 2010 01:41:45 AM
Old 04-14-2010
In the tutorial it says to use this script to set that up:

fuschlberger.net - Howto Setup a chroot-jail for ssh/scp with Linux

I ran that for the user tom, the passwd file, bash and various other stuff has been placed inside /home/tom
 

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CHROOT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 CHROOT(8)

NAME
chroot -- change root directory SYNOPSIS
chroot [-u user] [-g group] [-G group,group,...] newroot [command] DESCRIPTION
The chroot utility changes its current and root directories to the supplied directory newroot and then exec's command, if supplied, or an interactive copy of the user's login shell. If the -u, -g or -G options are given, the user, group and group list of the process are set to these values after the chroot has taken place. ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variable is referenced by chroot: SHELL If set, the string specified by SHELL is interpreted as the name of the shell to exec. If the variable SHELL is not set, /bin/sh is used. SEE ALSO
chdir(2), chroot(2), setgid(2), setgroups(2), setuid(2), getgrnam(3), environ(7), jail(8) HISTORY
The chroot utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. BSD
June 7, 2003 BSD
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