[scponly] Can't transfer files with SCP

[Hammad]

To place user directly into its home directory. In your /etc/passwd use '//'
double forward slashes. For example:

user1:x:1001:1001:Test User:/clients/abc-company//home:/usr/local/sbin/scponlyc

After login, user1 will be place in its 'home' directory and his chroot'ed upto
/clients/abc-company/

Hope this helps.

-- 
Hammad


Quoting Anthony Brock <Anthony_Brock at ous.edu>:

| Check to ensure that you've installed the subsystem (the sftp-server binary)
| in the chrooted environment. For example, on my system this is located at:
| 
| /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
| 
| The exact location can be determined by looking at the 'Subsystem' directive
| within SSH's sshd_config file:
| 
| Subsystem       sftp    /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
| 
| I wish I had a good answer for your last question. Unfortunately, I haven't
| found a way to "automatically" place SFTP users in a writeable directory.
| 
| Tony
| 
| 
| >>> Håkan Terelius <hakanterelius at hotmail.com> 08/18/04 12:19AM >>>
| Hi everybody
| 
| I have installed scponly on my linux server with chroot enabled.
| Then I created a user with the "make jail" script.
| I use WinSCP to connect to my server, and if I select "sftp" everything 
| works fine, but when I selected "scp" I got the message about the 
| "groups"-file, so I copied groups to /*chrooted user*/usr/bin/groups. After 
| that I can log in with scp, but when I tries to transfer a file I get the 
| error message
| "Cannot execute SCP to start transfer. Please make sure that SCP is 
| installed on the server and path to it is included in PATH. You may also try
| 
| SFTP instead of SCP.
| Command failed with return code 255."
| 
| It sounds like a very simpel error, but I'm quite new on linux. The strange 
| thing is that I have the scp binary in /*chrooted user*/usr/bin/scp
| I have also checked "ldd scp" and all those librarys exist there.
| Does anyone have any suggestions about what I could do to solve this?
| 
| I have an other question too.
| When the user logs in, he enters the chroot directory and not his writable 
| home folder.
| Is it possibly to make a login script that changes his directory when he 
| logs in.
| I have tried to add "cd home" in the ".bash_profile"-file, but it seems that
| 
| scponly doesn't execute that file, so is there an other way to make a login 
| script?
| 
| 
| Thanks for your time
| Hakan Terelius
| hakanterelius at hotmail.com 
| 
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