[scponly] Help me understand why the // syntax is useful ...

[Kaleb Pederson]

It sounds like you have everything setup mostly correct.  Can you let us know 
what you used for your configure options.  Also, could you post the debug 
syslog output (see the FAQ if necessary for information on how to enable it).

One note:

scp file user at host:/

The above will try to copy it to the root (/) directory.  You probably want:

scp file user at host:

To go to the default location.

--Kaleb

On Wednesday 31 January 2007 16:09, Arone Silimantia wrote:
> Currently my scponly users all have the exact same
> home directory:
>
> /mnt/home
>
> Which also happens to be the base of the chroot.  For
> instance, /mnt/home/etc, /mnt/home/bin.
>
> This all works fine - they do not have r/w access to
> /mnt/home, only execute, so they can traverse through
> to the directory they own and can write to.
>
> However the downside is that they always have to
> specify their directory in all operations.  Instead of
> simply doing something nice like this:
>
> scp file user at host:/
>
> they always have to do:
>
> scp file user at host:/user
>
> Because their home dir is / (as far as chroot is
> concerned) and they can't r/w that dir.
>
> Everything works and makes sense.  Easy.
>
> ------
>
> So, I decided to make everyones lives easier - no more
> remembering to type in your username.  Instead of a
> everyone having a home directory of:
>
> /mnt/home
>
> Everyone will have their own home directories, in the
> form of:
>
> /mnt/home//user1
> /mnt/home//user2
>
> and so on.  Yay!
>
> Except ... it doesn't seem to work.  For some reason,
> I need to specify the users directory _anyway_.  For
> instance:
>
>
> # ssh user at host ls -asl /
> total 0
> ls: /: Permission denied
>
> Or if I scp something:
>
> # scp file user at host:/
> scp: /file: Permission denied
>
>
> Again, the home directory in the systems root
> /etc/passwd file is /mnt/home/user, and the home
> directory in the chroot /etc/passwd is also
> /mnt/home/user.
>
> Why do I still have to speficy the username ?  Is the
> chdir that the documentation says // is doing just
> broken ?
>
> Or am I missing something ?
>
>
>
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