[scponly] Permission denied

[Chris de Vidal]

Thanks for responding!


Paul Hyder said this while chewing gum:
> The other thing to check is the user entry in the top level
> /etc/password file.  The users home directory needs to match
> the chroot jail, mostly there needs to be a double slash
> in the right place (probably something like "/portal//..."
> or "/portal/{username}//..." where your jail tree is built
> under the "//".)

Hm.  make jail asked me for a path for the scponly username and I gave it
/portal.  If it needs two trailing slashes perhaps the Makefile should be
patched.

Anyway I tried usermod -d /portal// scponly and grepped /etc/passwd:
scponly:x:1005:100::/portal//:/usr/sbin/scponlyc

Still got permission denied.  Bummer.


> BTW: It would also help to know your OS.

That info was in my first email (seems it got cut off); it's Debian 3.0
(Woody).


Thanks again for your response.

CD

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