[scponly] installation of scponly on RHEL 3

[Paul Hyder]

If you change the value in /usr/local/etc/scponly/debuglevel from zero
to 1 scponly will syslog trace messages.  You should also check any ssh
logging to make sure that the user is being permitted by ssh.
    Paul Hyder
    NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Systems Division
    Boulder, CO

Kyong Kim wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I'm new to scponly and have been having some trouble getting it to work.
> I looked through the archives but could not find anything so I was
> hoping someone could help me out..
> 
> I downloaded scponly-4.6.tgz for use on RHEL 3.
> 
> I configured it with only the following option --enable-chrooted-binary
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for cut... /bin/cut
> checking for grep... /bin/grep
> checking for sort... /bin/sort
> checking for ldd... /usr/bin/ldd
> checking for useradd... no
> checking for chown... /bin/chown
> checking for chmod... /bin/chmod
> checking for dirname... /usr/bin/dirname
> checking for id... /usr/bin/id
> checking for pw... /usr/bin/pw
> checking for rm... /bin/rm
> checking for pwd_mkdb... no
> configure: enabling WinSCP compatability...
> checking for pwd... /bin/pwd
> checking for groups... /usr/bin/groups
> checking for id... /usr/bin/id
> checking for echo... /bin/echo
> configure: enabling SFTP compatability...
> checking for sftp-server... /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for egrep... grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
> checking for string.h... (cached) yes
> checking syslog.h usability... yes
> checking syslog.h presence... yes
> checking for syslog.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking wordexp.h usability... yes
> checking wordexp.h presence... yes
> checking for wordexp.h... yes
> checking glob.h usability... yes
> checking glob.h presence... yes
> checking for glob.h... yes
> checking libgen.h usability... yes
> checking libgen.h presence... yes
> checking for libgen.h... yes
> checking getopt.h usability... yes
> checking getopt.h presence... yes
> checking for getopt.h... yes
> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
> checking for inline... inline
> checking for working alloca.h... yes
> checking for alloca... yes
> checking for malloc... yes
> checking for atexit... yes
> checking for bzero... yes
> checking for strchr... yes
> checking for strerror... yes
> checking for glob... yes
> checking for wordexp... yes
> checking for strspn... yes
> checking for basename... yes
> checking for getopt... yes
> checking whether optreset is declared... no
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating setup_chroot.sh
> config.status: creating config.h
> config.status: config.h is unchanged
> 
> When I ran make install, I get the following output-
> 
> /usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/bin
> /usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/man/man8
> /usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/etc/scponly
> /usr/bin/install -c -o 0 -g 0 scponly /usr/local/bin/scponly
> /usr/bin/install -c -o 0 -g 0 -m 0644 scponly.8
> /usr/local/man/man8/scponly.8
> /usr/bin/install -c -o 0 -g 0 -m 0644 debuglevel
> /usr/local/etc/scponly/debuglevel
> if test "xscponlyc" != "x"; then                        \
>         /usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/sbin;                         \
>         rm -f /usr/local/sbin/scponlyc;                 \
>         cp scponly scponlyc;                            \
>         /usr/bin/install -c -o 0 -g 0 -m 4755 scponlyc
> /usr/local/sbin/scponlyc;        \
> fi
> 
> 
> I verified that scponlyc is installed in /usr/local/bin directory.
> 
> I used setup_chroot.sh to create users and everything ran okay.
> But each time I try to use pscp to upload a small text file, I get the
> following error.
> 
> Fatal: Connection Lost
> 
> I tried to use setup_chroot.sh.rh9 in build_extras directory but I get
> the following error-
> 
> your scponly build is not configured for chrooted operation.
> please reconfigure as follows, then rebuild and reinstall:
> 
> ./configure --enable-chrooted-binary (... other options)
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this problem and able to resolve it?
> I'm not sure whether the problem is with the build or setup_chroot.sh.
> 
> Thank you in advance for any help.
> Kyong
> 
> 
> 
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