[scponly] won't someone _please_ think of the archives ? (scponly + unison + chroot)

[Paul Hyder]

If what you need is a writeable home directory, have you tried changing
the path in the top level password file (with the "//" syntax) to have the
user's home directory be the writeable ~/incoming?  (I don't know enough
about your specific jail configuration, would this work for you or is
being in ~ instead of ~/incoming important?)
	Paul Hyder
	NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Systems Division
	Boulder, CO

Ensel Sharon wrote:
> Ok, so it turns out I'm not the only person that has wondered if unison
> can be made to run in an scponly chroot with an incoming dir:
> 
> https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/pipermail/scponly/2004-May/000532.html
> 
> and:
> 
> http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?pid=43835
> 
> So ... obviously after three tries in two months, nobody is interested in
> commenting to me about this, but for the sake of people googling two years
> from now, can someone PLEASE confirm or deny that unison can be made to
> work with an incoming chroot directory under scponly ?
> 
> At this point I really just want to know whether it is possible or not.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> ----------
> 
> (rehash of my third posting on this topic follows, for those just tuning
> in)
> 
> I see on the web page and in the source that Unison works, and I further
> see that there was a fix (relatively) recently added that fixes some HOME
> variable issues.
> 
> However, I cannot get it to work.
> 
> scp, rsync, sftp, etc. - all work.
> 
> But Unison keeps trying to create .unison in the users home directory, as
> defined by the underlying systems' /etc/passwd, but in reality the users
> writeable directory is:
> 
> ~/incoming
> 
> So I need Unison to create:
> 
> ~/incoming/.unison
> 
> and not:
> 
> ~/.unison
> 
> I see no way to do this from the unison command line.  Can anyone confirm
> successful operation ?  Can anyone confirm successful operation in a
> chroot with a incoming directory ?
> 
> 
> 
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