[scponly] not chrooting from script

[Lupe Christoph]

On Friday, 2005-12-16 at 09:02:33 +0100, Lars Hermerschmidt wrote:

> i use the debian scponlyc package 4.0-1 and also tried the one from 
> testing release (forgot the version) and both show a quite ugly 
> behaviour when i call scponlyc from a script that i wrote as login 
> shell. My perl script presents a menu to users who log in through ssh 
> and if the user tries to execute a command it simply passes it to 
> scponlyc like this:
>  system("/usr/sbin/scponlyc -c \"$args\"");
> BUT scponlyc did no chroot and the logging don't realy told me why. So i 
> tried around and finaly found that with
>  system("export PATH=\$PATH:/usr/sbin; scponlyc -c \"$args\"");
> scponly does chroot.

> To me this sounds like a bug.

The bug is that scponlyc is a very peculiar kind of shell. One that does
not work like a sheel, but only like a login shell.

> When i use scponly directly as login shell and do a ssh login i got no 
> real sensful information. Wouldn't it be nice to give the admin a chance 
> to put a menu there like i did?

Actually, no. What would scp, sftp, rsync et al do with your menu?

Lupe Christoph
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