Re: "Connection closed" problem

[Derek M. <co...@pi...>]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:00:23PM +0000, Laura Rossi wrote:
> Hi!

Hi Laura,

Sorry to take so long getting back to you.  I've moved across the
world and have only had limited Internet access up to now...

> I'm a new user of rssh and I've just set up a chroot jail for one user on 
> RedHat 7.3.

You're aware that Red Hat 7.3 is EOL and unsupported (as are all other
releases up to Red Hat 8, with RH9 soon to follow in April).  I
believe there are already known security holes in RH 7.3 which Red Hat
will not fix.  Spending time setting up chroot jails may be a waste of
your time...


> I've create the following directories and copy the files (as
> described in 
> CHROOT file):
> 
>       /usr/chroot/

[SNIP]

So it seems that you want the chroot jail to be located in
/usr/chroot, right?

> my rssh.conf is:
> 
>        logfacility = LOG_USER # you can use comments at end of line
>        allowsftp
>        umask = 022
>        chrootpath=/usr/chroot/
>        user=my_user:011:10:/usr/chroot/home/my_user

Well, then that's the problem.  You told rssh that the base of the
chroot jail for "my_user" is /usr/chroot/home/my_user, NOT
/usr/chroot.  I suggest you have another look at the man page for
rssh.conf, if this is still a problem for you.  Note particularly the
documentation about the "user=" directive.

I didn't see anything else wrong, but if you still have problems after
you fix the user= line, you may have missed a library somewhere.

-- 
Derek D. Martin
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