Comments on: Updated: chrooted SFTP account recipes

By: Matilda

Matilda — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:27:23 +0000

Unbelievable how well-written and infromiavte this was.

By: Minstrel

Minstrel — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:06:49 +0000

Since version 4.9 of OpenSSH, this is now a built-in feature. I have written up the method I’ve used to migrate to it, in case it’s of use to others:

http://www.minstrel.org.uk/papers/sftp/builtin.html

Nice not to have to custom-code each time there’s an update to OpenSSH!

Hope this helps.

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Minstrel
http://www.minstrel.org.uk/

By: Peter SJF Bance

Peter SJF Bance — Fri, 18 May 2007 11:55:25 +0000

I don’t know if you still care, given that this article was last updated in January 2005, but I have put together a very similar solution for chroot-ing users that require SFTP only (i.e. no shell). I believe the method works on most *nix systems, and I intend to keep the patch maintained in line with OpenSSH releases.

So, in case it helps any other readers finding this page:

http://www.minstrel.org.uk/papers/sftp/