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Re: sftp question

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:23:26AM +0100, Marco Brigham wrote:
> OK, I get it. The first option is to add sftp-server to /etc/shells, and the
> second is to directly edit the users shell path. Thanks :) I was confused
> indeed...
> 
> Now that I have it working, it would be nice to have the user only see its
> own home folder. After looking at 'man chroot' I gave it a try by changing
> line (on /etc/sshd_config):
> 	Subsystem       sftp    /usr/libexec/sftp-server
> to
> 	Subsystem       sftp    /usr/sbin/chroot $HOME /usr/libexec/sftp-server
> 
> Which didn't work...

because 
	1) chroot is only allowed for root
	2) the file usr/libexec/sftp-server does not exist in $HOME

> Was this a stupid idea?

no. perhaps sshd needs a chrootuser option