Well, i used a script (attached) which i found on the internet and which seems to works perferctly. it creates the user and it locks him to his home directory.
remember the user needs to be able to login.He will be login though thru an application FileZilla to sftp.
But I tried to create the jail manually cause i need to understand what is really happening. The jail gets created but when it comes to su - user..
it gets the error
/bin/su : incorrect password
I dont know if im missing a library..Im tired of it now..
Hello everybody!
I'm Fabian from Germany near Hannover.
I bought SuSE 7.1 before 3 days .
I want use SuSE as a PHPserver!
(My english is very bad)
Now my question:
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Hi Experts,
Need your support
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