On Feb 27, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Riccardo Castellani wrote:

> I installed openssh-5.6p1 into my Fedora server and I run this service into 
> chroot mode.
> I think to have found out a BUG into this package, specifically into sshd 
> service:
> 
> if remote user tries to connect to this service, where its home directory is 
> unaccessible because it doesn't respect right permissions (execution 
> permission of owner is missed or home directory is missing), he comes 
> automatically into root folder of chroot.

It's not a bug, it's a feature ;) (c)

> I think sshd should have to deny this login or at least sshd_config should 
> have to contain the option to set this specifc behaviour; for example into 
> Fedora distributions, there is "DEFAULT_HOME" option in /etc/login.defs file 
> to permit this behavior.

No.

> Yes it's true, I can restrict access to specific users or use PAM module, but 
> for security reasons I need to make sure myself to restrict access ONLY to 
> home folder of user.
> I also could use PAM modules, but it's only available pam_mkhomedir.so which 
> creates home folder if this one is not existing; I need pam_homecheck.so but 
> it's available only as package for OpenSuse.
> Suggestions ? 

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