[scponly] Permission denied

[Kaleb Pederson]

Is scponlyc listed as a valid shell in /etc/shells (or its equivalent)?  If 
not, that would explain the behavior.

--Kaleb

On Thursday 31 March 2005 2:44 pm, Chris de Vidal wrote:
> Update: if I change the shell to /usr/bin/scponly, that works.  Didn't
> have to recompile.  Something is weird about the scponlyc binary.
>
> Ideas?
>
> CD
>
> Chris de Vidal said this while chewing gum:
> > scponly version 4.0
> > Debian 3.0 (Woody)
> >
> >
> > Great program!!!  Unfortunately I can't get it to work.  I'm getting
> > "permission denied" in /var/log/auth.log.
> >
> >
> >
> > I compiled my copy of the software like this:
> > ./configure --disable-scp-compat --disable-gftp-compat
> > --enable-chrooted-binary --prefix=/usr
> >
> > (By the way, --disable-winscp-compat fails during compile.  Dunno why.)
> >
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > Added these lines to /etc/shells:
> > /usr/bin/scponly
> > /usr/sbin/scponlyc
> >
> > I then ran "make jail" and gave it the scponly username and set his home
> > directory to /portal (where I want all my users to be chrooted).
> >
> >
> > When I log in via SFTP I get these messages in /var/log/auth.log:
> > Mar 31 16:57:04 dl2 sshd[15205]: Accepted password for scponly from
> > 172.19.6.89 port 2279 ssh2
> > Mar 31 16:57:04 dl2 sshd[15207]: subsystem request for sftp
> > Mar 31 16:57:04 dl2 PAM_unix[15207]: (ssh) session opened for user
> > scponly by (uid=1005)
> > Mar 31 21:57:04 dl2 [15208]: running: /usr/lib/sftp-server (username:
> > scponly(1005), IP/port: 172.19.6.89 2279 602)
> > Mar 31 21:57:04 dl2 [15208]: failed: /usr/lib/sftp-server with error
> > Permission denied(13) (username: scponly(1005), IP/port: 172.19.6.89 2279
> > 602)
> >
> > When I changed the shell to /bin/bash the scponly user could then log in.
> >
> > Permissions of /portal are 2775.
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> > CD
> >
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