[scponly] when do I, and when do I not, use the "/./" syntax ?

[Moti Levy]

/./ is used to change the default directory the user logs into at login 
time .

for example , if you chrooted your users then they probably only have 
one writable directory , say its called /incoming .

without /./ if they login they will be under /home/user
with /./incoming the will be logged in under /home/user/incoming

Moti


user wrote:
> I have successfully set up scponly.  Specifically, I set up scponlyc
> chroot shell, and built a chroot tree in /home.
> 
> I then set every users home directory to /home, and set their scponlyc
> chroot target as /home/(username).
> 
> I believe I have tested it thoroughly - all users do indeed seem to be
> chrooted into /home/(username) and do not seem to be able to access
> anything outside of their chroot.
> 
> However, I notice in documentation, and on this mailing list, the use of
> the standard "/./" placeholder for chroot paths ... as you can see, I do
> not have that in my home-path for any of my users.  Further, in other
> tests when I had deeper directory paths than simply "/home", I still did
> not make use of "/./"  ...  however, everything worked properly and I
> noticed no problems.
> 
> So, when do I need to use "/./", and when is it not necessary (and is my
> implementation one of the ones where it is not necessary, or _should I_ be
> using it ?)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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