[scponly] strange problem

[Paul Hyder]

Seems it might be helpful to turn on debugging (change the value in the debuglevel
file to 1, it will be /usr/local/etc/scponly/debuglevel unless you changed
the prefix at configure time).  That results in more detailed syslog messages.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "the root directory of the entire
filesystem" but more detailed syslog messages would show the process.
If you mean that the scp sessions end up at the top level of the chroot
then there might be missing "//" chroot indicators in the top level
password file user home directory entries.  Try setting debug level and
running sftp and scp.  If the resulting syslogs don't give you enough
information please send a (small please) set of syslog messages to the list.
	Paul Hyder
	NOAA Forecast Systems Lab
	Boulder, CO

katsumi liquer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> First of all thanks to everyone involved in this program because it is
> definitely a major missing piece of the puzzle with our openssh based
> installation here -- but I have noticed something strange which I
> can't figure out. I have configured scponlyc for several users, and in
> general everything seems to work fine. If I use the SFTP protocol to
> connect, everything is normal and I get the chroot directory structure
> which I would expect -- however, if I use the SCP protocol, for some
> reason I am defaulted to the root directory of the entire filesystem!
> I have checked my configurations and I can't find anything wrong, nor
> do I see any strange messages in the system logs. Has anyone seen this
> happen before and have any ideas on what it might be?
> 
> I apologize if this is a poor question -- I did my best to try and
> find an answer first, and I searched through several threads in the
> archive and I didn't find anything. I appreciate any information
> anyone has very much!
> 
> katsu
> 
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