[scponly] FreeBSD 6.2 with chroot "Connection Closed"

[Anish Mistry]

On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:37, Kaleb Pederson wrote:
> On Thursday 14 December 2006 23:27, Anish Mistry wrote:
> > So it doesn't seem to be even calling sftp-server. Â This doesn't
> > seem to be an scponly problem, but how do I get sftp debug output
> > enabled so that I can see what is wrong with my setup?
>
> Anish,
>
> Thank you for the good information.  I would guess that it doesn't
> work within the chroot because of some new requirements imposed by
> the newer versions of OpenSSH, although it seems strange that you
> didn't have any logging information for your second attempt.
>
> We just added a FAQ that should help with this.  Please see
> questions #2 and #3 on the FAQ page:
>
> http://sublimation.org/scponly/wiki/index.php/FAQ
>
> Please give us an update on whether or you not you get things
> working and whether or not the patch you applied for the new SFTP
> logging features works for you.
>
> You will probably need to make sure that you have a /dev/log within
> the chroot for the sftp logging capability to work.
I figured it out.  It seems that sftp-server needs a /dev/null.  So: 
mkdir dev && touch dev/null && chmod 0666 dev/null
in the chroot fixed the problem.

-- 
Anish Mistry
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