OpenSSH on AIX

Hi!

I recently tried to configure a chrooted SFTP-only account using internal-sftp as follows:

<pre> Subsystem sftp internal-sftp Match User sftpuser ChrootDirectory /sftpdir X11Forwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no ForceCommand internal-sftp

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This works like a charm on both Linux and FreeBSD, no further files are required within the chrooted directory if internal-sftp is used. On AIX however (using the most recent OpenSSH version: OpenSSH_5.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h) this does not work. A "truss /usr/sbin/sshd -Dddd" revealed, that apparently a passwd and group file in the chroot dir (/sftpdir) are still required.

Does anyone know any reason why AIX needs those files whereas Linux doesn't?

Ys, Aurel Bodenmann

See discusion http://sourceforge.net/projects/openssh-aix/forums/forum/435031/topic/1258613

Specially my comment ;)

Hi!

Thanks for your reply, I'll check it out. It's just that it would be awesome if the official, precompiled version would already support that feature (="file-less chroot").