And no sooner do I send the email than I spot the problem. Oops! Sorry about that. The sshd_config needed to contain a different internal-sftp line: Match User test-sftp-only ChrootDirectory /home/sftp/mcsosftp ForceCommand internal-sftp -f AUTHPRIV -l INFO PasswordAuthentication no AuthorizedKeysCommand /usr/local/bin/get_sftp_key That's gotten the test server working. Unfortunately, the production server already has that setting, so it's back to eliminating differences. Jeff On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Jeff Cours <jtcours.bulk at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We have some chrooted sftp-only users on a CentOS release 6.6 server. The > server had been logging their actions, but after recent updates the logs > have stopped. > > The server correctly logs non-chrooted users: > > Sep 14 17:47:24 vsecure4 sshd[1981]: Accepted publickey for jcours > from 192.168.10.166 port 42545 ssh2 > Sep 14 17:47:24 vsecure4 sshd[1981]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session > opened for user jcours by (uid=0) > Sep 14 17:47:24 vsecure4 sshd[1983]: subsystem request for sftp > Sep 14 17:47:24 vsecure4 internal-sftp[1984]: session opened for local > user jcours from [192.168.10.166] > Sep 14 17:47:24 vsecure4 internal-sftp[1984]: opendir "/home/jcours" > Sep 14 17:47:24 vsecure4 internal-sftp[1984]: closedir "/home/jcours" > Sep 14 17:47:49 vsecure4 internal-sftp[1984]: session closed for local > user jcours from [192.168.10.166] > Sep 14 17:47:19 vsecure4 sshd[1977]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session > closed for user jcours > > but log messages for chrooted users do not appear: > > Sep 14 17:08:11 vsecure4 sshd[1730]: Accepted publickey for > test-sftp-only from 192.168.10.166 port 41723 ssh2 > Sep 14 17:08:11 vsecure4 sshd[1730]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session > opened for user test-sftp-only by (uid=0) > Sep 14 17:08:11 vsecure4 sshd[1734]: subsystem request for sftp > Sep 14 17:08:22 vsecure4 sshd[1730]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session > closed for user test-sftp-only > > Notice that there are no "opendir" or "closedir" messages for the chrooted > user, or anything else from the internal-sftp system, for that matter. > > /etc/sshd_config contains these settings: > > Subsystem sftp internal-sftp -f AUTHPRIV -l INFO > > Match User test-sftp-only > ChrootDirectory /home/sftp/mcsosftp > ForceCommand internal-sftp > PasswordAuthentication no > AuthorizedKeysCommand /usr/local/bin/get_sftp_key > > We've been setting up chrooted logging using this sequence: > > sudo mkdir /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev > sudo touch /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev/log > sudo chattr +i /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev > sudo mount --bind /dev/log /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev/log > > /etc/rsyslog.conf includes the standard stuff for authpriv: > > # The authpriv file has restricted access. > authpriv.* /var/log/secure > > I've tried forcing rsyslog.conf to listen to /dev/log: > > # We should be listening here. > $SystemLogSocketName /dev/log > > I've also tried removing the hard-mounted /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev/log and > instead using this in /etc/rsyslog.conf: > > # For chrooted users, generally sftp-only users. > $AddUnixListenSocket /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev/log > > Neither approach seemed to help the problem, though rsyslogd does appear > to be listening to the sockets: > > $ sudo lsof -c rsyslogd | grep dev/log > lsof: WARNING: can't stat() devtmpfs file system /home/sftp/dev/log > (deleted) > Output information may be incomplete. > rsyslogd 1963 root 0u unix 0xdc100040 0t0 15419 /dev/log > rsyslogd 1963 root 3u unix 0xdbd27dc0 0t0 15421 > /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev/log > > and file identifies both as sockets: > > $ file /dev/log > /dev/log: socket > > $ sudo file /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev/log > /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev/log: socket > > Here's additional system info for the development server I'm using to > debug the problem: > > $ ls -l /dev/log > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Sep 14 17:43 /dev/log > > $ sudo ls -l /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev/log > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Sep 14 17:43 /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev/log > > $ ls -l /dev | grep log > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Sep 14 17:43 log > crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 227 Sep 14 15:23 mcelog > > $ sudo ls -l /home/sftp/mcsosftp/dev | grep log > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Sep 14 17:43 log > > $ cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS release 6.6 (Final) > > $ sestatus > SELinux status: disabled > > $ grep test-sftp-only /etc/passwd > test-sftp-only:x:507:507:Test SFTP > Only:/home/sftp/mcsosftp:/sbin/nologin > > $ sudo yum list installed | egrep -E 'rsyslog|ssh|sftp' > libssh2.i686 1.4.2-1.el6_6.1 @updates > openssh.i686 5.3p1-104.el6_6.1 @updates > openssh-clients.i686 5.3p1-104.el6_6.1 @updates > openssh-server.i686 5.3p1-104.el6_6.1 @updates > rsyslog.i686 5.8.10-10.el6_6 @updates > vsftpd.i686 2.2.2-14.el6 @base > > Corresponding packages on the production server showing the same problem: > > $ sudo yum list installed | egrep -E 'rsyslog|ssh|sftp' > libssh2.x86_64 1.4.2-1.el6_6.1 > @system-updates > openssh.x86_64 5.3p1-112.el6_7 > @system-updates > openssh-clients.x86_64 5.3p1-112.el6_7 > @system-updates > openssh-server.x86_64 5.3p1-112.el6_7 > @system-updates > rsyslog.x86_64 5.8.10-10.el6_6 > @system-updates > rsyslog-gnutls.x86_64 5.8.10-10.el6_6 > @system-updates > > > Does anyone have any ideas what the problem could be or how to diagnose it? > > Thanks very much in advance, > Jeff > >