[Chrootssh-users] chrooting users to their home directories

[John S. <li...@wa...>]

Just joined the list, but saw a question on 2005-01-08 from Camilo 
Rostoker on setting up the chroot so that the chrooted user sees no 
other chrooted users.

I did this simply by putting all the working chroot directories and 
files into the users' home directory. I then set up the home 
directory as:
/path/to/user/./

That way, the chroot is within the user's home directory. I then 
create a sub-directory www within the home, and give write permission 
to the chrooted user to that.

The downsides of this include:
- the user sees /bin, /lib, /etc, and has to know to write his files to /www
- Separate copies of the libs and binaries takes up space (5 M on my 
Slackware 9.1 system, 7.6 M on my SuSE 9.2 system)

But it does do what you requested.

John
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