CentOS

Hello everyone. I am hosting an SFTP server for about 40 clients. Each user has it's home directory set to a specific folder on a mounted drive, and each user logs into that folder. My problem is locking them into that folder. I am told chroot will solve this issue, but I am not sure how to go about setting this up. Every walkthrough discusses making new home directories on the /usr slice, and I don't want to do this.

Hello,

I have had the same problem years ago and did not find an efficient solution for it, so I switched to FTP over SSL and disabled sftp. You can configure it with vsftpd (included in cents 6) which supports chroot and force use of ssl for clients (login and/or data). There are many clients that support ftp over ssl, for example filezilla - runs on win/mac/linux.

hope this helps ...

S.

A google on [url=http://www.google.com/search?q=ssh+sftp+chroot+%22red+hat+enterprise+linux+6%22+OR+rhel6+OR+centos-6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active]ssh sftp chroot "red hat enterprise linux 6" OR rhel6 OR centos-6[/url] looks hopeful. The [url=http://www.thisisnotsupported.com/sftp-chrootjail-on-centos6/]second hit[/url] seems pretty close to the target.

[url=http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/]rssh[/url] will do the job nicely. It's in rpmforge:
[code]Available Packages
rssh.x86_64 2.3.3-2.el6.rf rpmforge[/code]