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Chrooted SSH/SFTP On Fedora 7 This document describes how to set up a chrooted SSH/SFTP environment on Fedora 7. The chrooted users will be jailed in a specific directory where they can't break out. They will be able to access their jail via SSH and SFTP.

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I tried dot to dot on fedora 8. but still user is able to browse everything.

 

[geek@amd sbin]$ sftp [email protected]
Connecting to amd.slackme.org...
[email protected]'s password:
sftp> pwd
Remote working directory: /home/chroot/home/testuser
sftp> cd /
sftp> ls -l
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Dec 21 23:07 bin
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Dec 22 02:40 boot
drwxr-xr-x    6 geek     geek         4096 Dec 22 02:47 data
drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root         4360 Dec 22 16:21 dev
drwxr-xr-x  104 root     root        12288 Dec 22 16:58 etc
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Dec 22 16:19 home
drwxr-xr-x   15 root     root         4096 Dec 21 23:07 lib
drwx------    2 root     root        16384 Dec 22 02:30 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Dec 22 16:07 media
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Dec 22 15:03 misc
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 13 20:17 mnt
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Dec 22 15:03 net
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 13 20:17 opt
dr-xr-xr-x  160 root     root            0 Dec 22 20:33 proc
drwxr-x---   30 root     root         4096 Dec 22 16:07 root
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        12288 Dec 21 23:07 sbin
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Dec 22 02:31 selinux
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Dec 22 02:41 srv
drwxr-xr-x   12 root     root            0 Dec 22 20:33 sys
drwxrwxrwt   12 root     root         4096 Dec 22 16:41 tmp
drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root         4096 Dec 22 02:34 usr
drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Dec 22 02:43 var
sftp>
 

By: newgee

I added the script and all this and now it is giving me "access denied" everywhere I go.. why is this?

By: Feras.B

Think need to updated ..

fuschlberger.net/programs/ssh-scp-sftp-chroot-jail/

/Feras

By: Lukas

Thanks for this really helpful tutorial! It's a bit old but also works under newer versions of Fedora.

By: Kurt

http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/download/openssh-4.5p1-chroot.tar.bz2

Doesn't exist anymore.