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A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children.

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Help on chroot sftp user

I have 5 sites all under /home/mainuser. I have created user in /home/user1, currently the sftp works and the user is jailed to his folder. However, I want it to have access to 2 sites in /home/mainuser and hide the other 3 sites from user1. So I…
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CHROOT for shell script testing

I am looking at setting up a shell script in order to properly document and automate the process I am using to setup a few servers we have. In order to test the shell script through its different stages I was thinking a CHROOT would be ideal, since…
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How can I install ubuntu server in a chroot environment?

I am using Ubuntu Karmic desktop. I want to install Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server in a chroot environment. Can anyone provide instructions on how to do this?. A Google search does not bring up anything useful (perhaps I am searching using the wrong…
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question about chroot

I used chroot to install Debian Lenny on my Ubuntu desktop. I have now decided I will no longer be using Debian and so I want to remove Debian and install Ubuntu server in a chroot instead. My question is, I can simply remove the…
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sftp chroot access via SSH

I have this setup in sshd_config: AllowUsers test1 test2 Match group sftpgroup ChrootDirectory /var/www X11Forwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no ForceCommand internal-sftp Match user test2 ChrootDirectory…
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Is there an equivalent to MySecureShell for Centos?

I have some issue to install MySecureShell on CentOS 5.4 because I want to use Yum to install it (for maintainability). I get this error : yum install mysecureshell Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.10()(64bit) is needed by package…
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Ubuntu Server mod_chroot Apache2 Problem

I am trying to make it so my apache web pages will be in a chroot jail. I have set up my chroot jail as according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ModChroot. However when i restart apache i get the following error logged: [error] No such file or…
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WinSCP and chroot problem, "A call to an OS Function Failed"

We've got a chroot environment on CentOS set up for our users to download data from. One of our users is using WinSCP and they're getting this error: "A call to an OS function failed". This link on the WinSCP Support forum raises the same issue but…
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How to set chroot for SFTP under Ubuntu 8.04?

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS comes with OpenSSH 4.7, before the ChrootDirectory parameter was introduced. How can I upgrade OpenSSH to 4.9+? Alternatively, without upgrading OpenSSH, how can I set chroot?
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Availability of CHROOT in Docker containers and clusters

Is the Linux tool chroot generally usable in a Docker container running in clusters and cloud platforms? (background) I'm developing an application where I may need to use chroot inside a Docker container. In a related question I expressed my…
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Pure FTP Server let's me download files from "Bind Mounted HTML" folder but will thrown 533 Error to STOR command when uploading Index.html

Yesterday I finished configuring a FTP Server using Pure-FTPd. The method I am using is the "Virtual Users" method. The commands below are basically what I executed it in order to make it work: PureFTPd (Debian 10) Instalar FTP usando o Pure-FTPd…
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/dev/null , /dev/random and chrooted bind

Hy, Why a chrooted bind need to mknod dev/null and dev/random ? Howto say it's necessary but without explain reasons, I administrate chrooted bind servers without theses options, and all seems to work perfectly ... Thanks for your answers.
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How can I set specific directory for different users in proftp?

Currently, when user A logs in proftp, he comes at his home directory /home/A, when user B logs in proftp, he comes at his home directory /home/B. I want to let user A come at /dir1 and let user B come at /dir2, how can I do in proftpd's…
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Tilde (~) shortcut in chroot jail

I have set up a chroot jail with bash for an ssh user. The "true" path of the home directory is /home/jails/home/name, and the chroot directory is /home/jails. When the tilde ~ shortcut is used in the bash, however, it tries to take the user to…
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Debian unattended (preseed) installation, access to audio card(s)

I'm using the preseeding feature in order to shape a custom Debian 10 x64 system. Everything is happening well, except that during the late_command step, I'm running a shell script to configure and deploy miscellaneous things and I would like to be…
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