how to chroot to /home/ an ssh acct

2000-03-20 Thread t s a d i
hello all, i need to give someone shell access to my server (ssh) but i dont want him to go higher than /home/ ... any idea on how that can be done ? also, i chrooted his ftp acct to /home/ but, when he "ls -al", he only sees numeric user ids and gids and not the corresponding name. is th

Re: how to chroot to /home/ an ssh acct

2000-03-20 Thread Chris Wagner
At 07:28 PM 3/19/00 -0800, t s a d i wrote: >only sees numeric user ids and gids and not the corresponding name. is >this because /etc/passwd,group was not found (bec of chrooted ftp to Yep. For him, /etc does not exist. Stick some symlinks of any critical files he would need in /home. /home/e

Re: how to chroot to /home/ an ssh acct

2000-03-20 Thread Aaron Dewell
symlinks that go up past the chrooted directory don't work. I.e. you are creating a reference to /etc/passwd within the chrooted environment, and have just created a circular symlink. Best way is to create a "dummy" password file for the chroot jail with just the information they need, e.g: som

Re: minicom - no termcap entry for unknown??

2000-03-20 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Afetr logging in: export TERM=vt102 before starting vi, etc. When you initiate the connection, minicom is emulating a terminal, but the shell on the other side doesn't know it. vt102 should work, the exact value is actually the one you asked minicom to emulate. -Original Message- Fro

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