[scponly] Problem swapping to writable subdirectory - incoming with WinSCP

Kaleb Pederson kibab at icehouse.net
Thu Feb 22 21:43:34 EST 2007


It looks like you setup logging correctly, so your syslog daemon is probably 
writing to a different log file or not writing to one at all.

--Kaleb

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 12:22 pm, Adrian Jones wrote:
> Ok, well I set the debug level to 2, but I don't seem to be getting very
> verbose output. Here is the content from my syslog after logging on using
> WinSCP with the chrooted user:
>
> exec of /home/testuser/usr/lib/sftp-server within chroot by process
> /usr/local/sbin/scponlyc[scponlyc:15503] uid/euid:1018/1018
> gid/egid:100/100, parent /usr/sbin/sshd[sshd:3132] uid/euid:1018/1018
> gid/egid:100/100
>
> Just to confirm, I did a: cat /usr/local/etc/scponly/debuglevel and the
> output is: 2
>
> Sorry, really not sure why I am not getting more output.
>
> Thanks for your help with this,
> Adrian
>
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:51:08 -0800
> From: "Adrian Jones" <ajones at umces.edu>
> Subject: [scponly] Problem swapping to writable subdirectory -
> 	incoming with	WinSCP
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> Hi everyone.
>
> Well after a bunch of problems trying to install scponly using the Debian
> apt package, I setup the latest unstable .deb package and things seem to be
> working pretty well. I am using scponlyc with chroot. Using the SSH SFT
> window the user is logged in and taken straight to the incoming subfolder
> with no access to anything above it - exactly what I want to have happen.
> However, with WinSCP they are take to their home directory. They can see
> all the other folders inside home, but cannot browse above their home
> directory. Can someone tell me why WinSCP is not taking them straight to
> the incoming subfolder and limiting them to that folder?
>
> On a somewhat related note - I am getting transfer errors with the SHH SFT
> window when copying files into the incoming subdirectory. The file is
> actually transferred and seems to be fine, but I always get the error. I
> don't get this error with WinSCP.
>
> Would appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
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> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:31:48 -0800
> From: Kaleb Pederson <kibab at icehouse.net>
> Subject: Re: [scponly] Problem swapping to writable subdirectory -
> 	incoming	with WinSCP
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> Hi,
>
> Could you turn on logging and post the output?  That will help us determine
> what's going on as there are a number of things it could be.
>
> Information on turning on logging is available here:
>
> http://sublimation.org/scponly/wiki/index.php/FAQ#How_do_I_turn_on_logging.
>3 F
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Kaleb
>
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 12:51 am, Adrian Jones wrote:
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > Well after a bunch of problems trying to install scponly using the
> > Debian apt package, I setup the latest unstable .deb package and
> > things seem to be working pretty well. I am using scponlyc with
> > chroot. Using the SSH SFT window the user is logged in and taken
> > straight to the incoming subfolder with no access to anything above it -
>
> exactly what I want to have happen.
>
> > However, with WinSCP they are take to their home directory. They can
> > see all the other folders inside home, but cannot browse above their
> > home directory. Can someone tell me why WinSCP is not taking them
> > straight to the incoming subfolder and limiting them to that folder?
> >
> > On a somewhat related note - I am getting transfer errors with the SHH
> > SFT window when copying files into the incoming subdirectory. The file
> > is actually transferred and seems to be fine, but I always get the
> > error. I don't get this error with WinSCP.
> >
> > Would appreciate any help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adrian
>
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