Re: [Chrootssh-users] dropped connection after logging in

[lee f. <lfe...@4l...>]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 12:59, lee fellows wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Using openssh-3.8p1-chroot on a SuSE 9.0 i386 machine.  Attempting to
> use the chroot functionality with new accounts having their homedirs
> created on the fly, if they do not previously exist.  This was built on
> the machine and installed in /usr/local.  We are using pam to
> authenticate against a ldap server.  The server is authenticating the
> user OK, but drops the connection when it attempts to chroot to the 
> jailed root.  I did not have a problem with openssh-3.7p1-chroot in the
> same environment, with the exception that it would not create new users
> home dirs on login.
> 
>   Using ldd to try and identify missing libraries has been unsuccessful.
> 
>   Setting LogLevel to DEBUG3 has only resulted in a report that the
> server could not change root to the jailed directory, but no reason is 
> given.  The server then terminates the connection with the client, but 
> the log says that the client terminated the connection.
> 
>   Ideas?  Do you need more info?
> 
>   Thank you. 
> 

  Replying to myself:

    It appears that the patch for implementing chroot behaviour was
coming too soon in the do_setusercontext function of session.c.  When I
moved the #ifdef PAM/#endif PAM block that trailled the patch to a place
immediately prior to the bulk of the chroot patch, the pam_mkhomedir 
works and the chroot works.

  Attached is my diff with the clean openssh-3.8p1 source.