[scponly] scponly failed

[Kaleb Pederson]

Thanks for the feedback Peter!  I hadn't heard of the "file not found"
message being a symptom of missing libraries, so that's very useful to
know.

Glad you got it working.

--Kaleb

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Peter Weil <plweil at wisc.edu> wrote:
> Success(!). The sftp-server binary needed not only libraries in the/
>  lib64 directory, but in the /usr/lib64 directory as well. The other
>  machines I had installed scponly on don't even have lib64 drectories...
>
>  I hope this helps someone else:
>
>  If everything 'looks good' (directory structure, permissions, etc.)
>  but the secure log either 1) complains about a missing file that
>  appears to be associated with the sftp-server (or some other) binary;
>  or 2) closes the connection without explanation -- run ldd on the
>  binary and make sure all of the libraries are copied over to the
>  chrooted directory. I know this sounds like common sense, but every
>  machine is different; you just don't know what the requirements of an
>  individual machine are unless you explicitly run ldd on the binaries.
>
>  -Peter
>
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