I don't have much experience with chroot, but I want to set up an SSH access for a user and restrict them to their home directory. I've done a little research and found out that the commercial SSH2 provides "ChRootUsers" and "ChRootGroups" configuration directives. While I suppose that I could install SSH2 because their licensing allows for free use with the Linux OS, I would rather stick with OpenSSH, which is what I'm using now. According to the O'Reilly SSH book SSH2 is the only implementation of SSH with those directives built in. I decided to poke around on the OpenSSH mailing lists to see if there was any discussion of adding a similar feature to OpenSSH and it looks like there is/was an unofficial patch in the CVS but it was never incorporated into the official OpenSSH distro and subsequently not in the Linux port of OpenSSH. And I certainly don't know enough to try to port the patch myself. Then I tried the following which probably indicates my ignorance of the Linux/SSH/login process, I tried changing the user's shell: "/bin/bash" to a shell script with: usermod -s /bin/usr_login.sh which contained one line: chroot /path/to/userhomedir /bin/bash This fails, and I'm pretty sure that I know why, but I wanted to seek advice and guidance from those of you who might have experience with this before proceeding. Thanks in advance, eirik
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