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Hello, I've tried many places, finally ending up here to ask my question: why is it so vital that the directory used with the ChrootDirectory directive is root-owned? Like many people I'm trying to use this in a webhosting environment where several users get sftp-only access to some directory, usually something like /home/user/web/part-of-website. I can be sure that there are no setuid

On Sat, 11 Nov 2023, Bob Proulx wrote: > I am supporting a site that allows members to upload release files. I > have inherited this site which was previously existing. The goal is > to allow members to file transfer to and from their project area for > release distribution but not to allow general shell access and not to > allow access to other parts of the system. > >

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I'd like to see the chroot security checks relaxed a bit. On newer Linux kernels, there's a prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1, 0, 0, 0) that prevents privilege elevation (via setuid binaries, etc) for the caller and all of its descendants. That means that chroot(untrusted directory), prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1, 0, 0, 0), setreuid(uid, uid), execve(a

On 12.11.23 03:52, Damien Miller wrote: > On Sat, 11 Nov 2023, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> I am supporting a site that allows members to upload release files. I >> have inherited this site which was previously existing. The goal is >> to allow members to file transfer to and from their project area for >> release distribution but not to allow general shell access and not

Hello, First, a big thank you to the OpenSSH devs. _ /Problem Summary:/ _ Chroot and SELinux don't get along. This affects both the new (official) ChrootDirectory feature, as well as the older (3rd party) patch at http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/. _ /History and repro:/ _ On March 21, 2008, Alexandre Rossi posted to this list with the subject: "*ChrootDirectory

Hi all, I am using Match directive and internal-sftp to chroot sftp users into their directory. Connection and login works. I can change directories and put/get files. Also logging of the internal sftp-process works (created a /dev/log socket inside the chroot). As soon as I use the 'ls' command, nothing happens and the the process gets stuck. Listing files does work as soon as I remove

Hi, (please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list) If compiled with SELinux support, OpenSSH 4.8 current cvs fails for accounts where the new ChrootDirectory option is active : debug1: PAM: establishing credentials debug3: PAM: opening session debug2: User child is on pid 1695 debug3: mm_request_receive entering debug1: PAM: establishing credentials debug3: safely_chroot: checking

I am supporting a site that allows members to upload release files. I have inherited this site which was previously existing. The goal is to allow members to file transfer to and from their project area for release distribution but not to allow general shell access and not to allow access to other parts of the system. Currently rsync and old scp has been restricted using a restricted shell

I'm working on setting up a semi-trusted sftp service, and to get it working, I need chroot capability. I've taken the /./ wuftpd magic token code from contrib/chroot.diff and put it into the sftp server. The main problem is that privileges have been dropped by the time the subsystem is exec'ed, so my patch requires that sftp-server be setuid root. Not ideal, I know, but I drop all

Hi, According to the sshd_config manual page the option ChrootDirectory can be used to force a chroot:ed environment for the SSHD server. But as I understand the manual page this is a global setting and it is not possible to specify this per SSH subsystem. We are building a system where we need users to be able to log on from remote machines via SSH, but with the tweaks that we (for security

Hello, I'm trying to set up an sftp (sshfs) service accessible to users with a normal account on a server, but which would be restricted to a subset of the directory hierarchy normally accessible to the users in question, in practice a single directory. The idea would be to allow file access to this directory with a passwordless public key, but keep rest of the users file accessible only with

Hello Damien, I am using OpenSSH-5.0 on my ARM board. I want to perform RSA authentication, but server is not accepting the key generated by the client. I have copied the authorized_keys in the "$HOME/.ssh/" folder and provided permission (755) to that folder. Please help me how to solve this problem. Following is the log from the client OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574 Summary: trailing white space on Forced Command within ChrootDirectory causes failure Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 5.1p1 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: sshd AssignedTo:

I suspect this has been asked before but I'll ask anyway. Q1: Is it possible for a non-root process to perform a chroot? My interest is this: I have a typical ISP hosting account (verio; on a FreeBSD 4.4 server.) I'd like to install and run various CGI packages, yet protect myself (and my email, and my .ssh keys) from bugs being exploited in those CGI packages. Chroot at the start

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2036 Priority: P5 Bug ID: 2036 Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org Summary: Add %g user group name parameter for ChrootDirectory Severity: enhancement Classification: Unclassified OS: Linux Reporter: sue at pennine.com Hardware: ix86 Status:

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564 Summary: non-accessible user's home directory not reported when ChrootDirectory=none Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 5.2p1 Platform: All OS/Version: Solaris Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: sshd

Forwarding a message from Rogier Wolff: > > Nick Andrew wrote: > > Theo De Raadt pointed out (possibly not in this thread) that basing > > protection on euid is not workable. Although I like the concept of > > variable expansion in pathnames, I don''t see it as a security mechanism. > > Why not? Because programs that _were_ privileged but have set euid ==

Under "ChrootDirectory" there is a line that says, "This path, and all its components, must be root-owned directories that are not writable by any other user or group." When I first read this "all its components" seemed to mean that all directories and files within this directory must be root owned and root only writable. This seemed odd as I would not be able to

Hey guys, I have read all the messages regarding this issue on the mailing list and I did notice that quite a few people are not exactly happy with the new easiness of the chroot support introduced to openssh. I'm one of them and I think to support my special configuration, the implementation would need to be changed. I'm right now setting up a small web hosting company an every

Hi, I need to make a custom code change in sftp-server module to copy the received file outside the chroot-setup. I am trying to chroot repeatedly to get physical root directory and the copy received file to a directory outside chrooted directory. The children processes are owned by the sftp-user and so, sftp child process does not have permission to escape out of chroot. Is there a simple way