[scponly] can't start sftp-server on Fedora Core 5

[Claude Jones]

On Tue March 28 2006 14:58, Kaleb Pederson wrote:
> That's not what we are looking for -- that's actually an
> iptables log entry. You might have to change your syslog
> settings to get it to show up in /var/log/<blah>.
>
> It should look something like:
>

This looks like what you posted:

Mar 28 15:26:24 78 sshd[29672]: Accepted password for jph from 
207.188.230.66 port 28787 ssh2
Mar 28 20:26:24 78 sshd[29673]: Accepted password for jph from 
207.188.230.66 port 28787 ssh2
Mar 28 15:26:24 78 sshd[29674]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session 
opened for user jph by (uid=0)
Mar 28 15:26:24 78 sshd[29674]: subsystem request for sftp
Mar 28 15:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: chrooted binary in place, will 
chroot()
Mar 28 15:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: 3 arguments in total.
Mar 28 15:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: 	arg 0 is scponlyc
Mar 28 15:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: 	arg 1 is -c
Mar 28 15:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: 	arg 2 
is /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
Mar 28 15:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: opened log at LOG_AUTHPRIV, 
opts 0x00000009
Mar 28 15:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: retrieved home directory of 
"/home/jph" for user "jph"
Mar 28 15:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: chrooting to dir: "/home/jph"
Mar 28 15:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: chdiring to dir: "/"
Mar 28 20:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: setting uid to 501
Mar 28 20:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: processing request: 
"/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server" 
Mar 28 20:26:45 78 scponly[29675]: 
running: /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server (username: jph(501), 
IP/port: 207.188.230.66 28787 22)
Mar 28 15:26:45 78 sshd[29674]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session 
closed for user jph

One thing I see that seems strange is the time jump - it goes from 
15:26 to 20:26 and back to 15:26 - perhaps not the most 
important, but it looks wrong - the session closed by itself, 
without any intervention from me...

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA