[scponly] Scponly - chroot

[Jeff MacDonald]

I'm running FreeBSD 4.8, sorry for lack of details.

Client is WinScp 2 on WinXP

Jeff.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lupe Christoph [mailto:lupe at lupe-christoph.de] 
>> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 4:35 PM
>> To: Jeff MacDonald
>> Cc: scponly at lists.ccs.neu.edu
>> Subject: Re: [scponly] Scponly - chroot
>> 
>> 
>> On Monday, 2003-05-26 at 14:45:31 -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>> > Oddly enough, I have a man page for scponly, but not scponlyc.
>> 
>> If you look closely, you'll find scponlyc described in that 
>> manpage as
>> well.
>> 
>> > Anyway, I set the shell for a test user to scponlyc, and when I try
>> > to login with WinSCP2 I barfs about not being able to get 
>> group listings
>> > and some other stuff.
>> 
>> IIRC somebody on this list reported problems with WinSCP and groups
>> under RedHat. My fuzzy memory tell me the command "groups" is a shell
>> script, and your chroot environment does not have a shell. I believe
>> WinSCP (never used that myself) has a switch that lets it skip this
>> groups command.
>> 
>> Hope this is useful.
>> 
>> > I assume that means to use scponlyc, I have to use jail ?
>> 
>> Nope. You maybe you should not assume we do telepathy. For 
>> instance, you
>> could divulge your platform. We now know the client is WinSCP, but we
>> still don't know what that server is running. RedHat is a 
>> guess fed by
>> my faulty memory.
>> 
>> 
>> Lupe Christoph
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