Re: scp/sftp & CWD

[MAL <ma...@ko...>]

Derek Martin wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 07:14:12PM +0100, MAL wrote:
> 
>>Hi ppl,
>>
>>Is there any way to get sftp and/or scp to change to a different 
>>starting directory on connect.  I don't mean from a user's point of 
>>view.. I know sftp <user@host:/dir> works.. I mean on the server end.
> 
> 
> rssh will not do this.  The obvious answer is to change the home
> directories on the server to be the place where you want the users to
> log into...  I can't imagine any reason you wouldn't want to do that,
> since you're obviously limiting their access with rssh, and you want
> to make it always change to some directory.  Just change their home
> dir in the password file.
> 
> If you're using NIS or similar, use sed on the maps to make a local
> password file with the home directories fixed so they point where you
> want 'em.

I cannot change user's home directories, as I have other user specific 
data stored in them, (programs that create configs that cannot be 
specified to be elsewhere), but I simply want the user placed in 
another, empty web directory when they sftp in for the first time.

Is there any way to do this with rssh?  I don't want to resort to 
changing rssh, as that would break it's tested stability, but is there 
no other way?

Cheers,
MAL