[olug] vsftp and sftp

Lane Roberts roberts.lane at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 15:25:46 UTC 2010


I haven't used it in combination with vsftp, but you should take a
look at scponly - it is essentially a shell wrapper that can chroot an
scp or sftp connection. I've been using it for about a year now, and
it works pretty well.

http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Lane

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Trent Melcher <trentm at q.com> wrote:
> Anyone have any experience setting up both vsftp and sftp on the same server
> using the same home directory for your users? Here is what I have, it's a
> RHEL 5.4 box running vsftp and I have the users jailed (chroot) to their
> home directories, now sftp does work, the users can login and are sitting at
> their home directory, but they aren't jailed, they can move out of it.
> Trying to jail them to their home directory has been unsuccessful, everytime
> I think I have it, I break vsftp.  So Im not sure if its even possible or
> maybe a different application to use that does both?
>
> Trent
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