[scponly] scponly doesn't work after upgrade to lenny

[Kaleb Pederson]

On Thursday 19 March 2009 03:43:46 pm Flo wrote:
> Kaleb Pederson wrote:
> > You're not the only person experiencing problems with scponly on
> > Debian.  Another person has reported problems within the last week, so
> > I'd recommend you file a bug report with Debian.
> > 
> 
> Sorry that I haven't seen this myself. My search happened more than one 
> week ago, just the posting was delayed.

Not a problem.
 
> I will file a bug report.
> 
> > See last week's thread:
> > http://lists.ccs.neu.edu/pipermail/scponly/2009-March/002018.html
> > 
> > I'm not sure what the problem is, but we recommend that you rebuild
> > the latest CVS or stable release of scponly from the source.  Chris
> > provided a configure line that can be used to match the configuration
> > of the .deb installed scponly.
> > 
> 
> I built it from source as well, but it didn't work at the first try.

Unfortunately, the setup_chroot script isn't perfect, so you'll often need to add a /dev/null to the chroot manually.  I'd recommend Jailkit if you need something more robust.

> I will retry and use the configuration line provided by Chris.
> 
> I will post the result as soon as I am done.

Sounds good.  Thanks.

--Kaleb