[scponly] Cannot login after upgrade to 4.2 on FreeBSD 6.0

[Hideyuki KURASHINA]

>>> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:13:52 +0100, "Helmut Schneider" <jumper99 at gmx.de> said:

> > I recently upgraded from 4.1 to 4.2. By now I cannot login anymore.
> > Using  WinSCP I immediately get an unspecified error, using ssh -l
> > from another  machine at least shows up /etc/motd and then closes the
> > connection.
> 
> JFYI, I was not able to use scponly 4.2 on
> 
> FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4 and 6.0
> OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8
> 
> using ports, packages or compile it on my own.

Is this only if you enabled chroot?

I confirmed scp, sftp, WinSCP (both SCP and SFTP mode) work if chroot
is not enabled.  If chroot enabled, /var/log/auth.log says

  Dec 28 00:07:39 tpx40 scponly[7786]: chroot dir writable by group/other: /home/scponly

while the directory actually not writable by group & other as follows.

  # ls -ld /home/scponly
  drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  512 Dec 28 00:05 /home/scponly/

Helmut, you can able to use scponly by specifying
--disable-chroot-checkdir to configure script for the moment,
but be sure to recent vulnerabilities.

-- rushani