Chroot within chroot

Question

I'm using Centos 5.2 and when I try to make a chroot jail using the script, I get:

Copying libraries for /usr/bin/scp. (0x00007fff17bfe000) cp: cannot stat `(0x00007fff17bfe000)': No such file or directory ...

I am currently using on a rackspace cloud server so i suspect that these dependencies are outside of my own root.

Does anyone have a better idea for jailing the sftp server on a cloud server using Centos 5.2?

Answer 1

Does anyone have a better idea for jailing the sftp server on a cloud server using Centos 5.2?

Update to OpenSSH 4.9 or higher and use the builtin chroot-capabilities for the internal SFTP server. There are no official packages for CentOS, though, so you'd have to build it yourself or install it from a third-party repository.

See e. g. OpenSSH SFTP chroot() with ChrootDirectory.

Answer 2

Does anyone have a better idea for jailing the sftp server on a cloud server using Centos 5.2?

Hi, yes use MySecureShell : http://mysecureshell.sourceforge.net