[CentOS] Chrooting SFTP over SSH2
Johnn Tan
linuxweb at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 16:08:59 UTC 2007
Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> As per the subject line - if I look up setting up chroot jails for SFTP over
> SSH2 I'm led to various Web sites and patches and also to a CentOS wiki page
> dated 2005, but what's the 'best' or 'correct' way to set this up for Centos
> 4.5 and 5?
Yeah, it's going to be a patch/hack until chroot is native
to openssh which might never happen.
rssh and scponly are the two to look at (I use rssh).
If sftp is not a requirement, you should really look into
ftp/tls aka ftps. You can use vsftpd and it natively does
chroot and even virtual users. A simple config change to do
tls and you get certificate-based security.
Also, nearly every Windows & Mac gui ftp client supports
ftps for free or in their "basic" version (some clients
require "pro" versions to get sftp capability).
johnn
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