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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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Files uploaded using FileZilla with SFTP are missing permissions

I am using chroot in sftp. And it works perfectly, but files uploaded with FileZilla are stored without any permissions (basically 000). ---------- 1 cwsftp sftp 4364328 Jan 19 16:02 hygq8KAZ3seC.128.mp3 This is my setup in the…
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sftp login issue with chroot

I want to be able to create a structure for hosting multiple sites. I want the user files to reside inside /var/www/sites/domain.com and the sftp access to be restricted with chroot. I've followed some examples on how to set this up, and this is…
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How to lock a user into a directory (not SSH)

I have regular users who are not SSH'd into a machine but are accessing the machine directly. How can I lock them into their home directory or any directory? At the moment they can successfully run rm -rf /. They can also run all sorts of dangerous…
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Chrooting Shell Environment on debian wheezy

I created a chrooted user on a directory /home/jail, Inside my /home/jail are the bin,dev,etc,home,lib,lib64 and usr directories. /home/jail/ {bin,dev,etc,home,lib,lib64,usr} are all owned by root:root I set my user's home directory to…
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Chroot doesn't work in PHP5-FPM + nginx

I have added two line in: "/etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf". There are: chroot = /home/user/www/public_html chdir = / In the server section of my: /etc/nginx/sites-available/default: root /home/user/www/public_html/site.com; location ~ \.php$ { …
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Allow dev user to edit files that sometimes belong to www-data

This question has been asked time and time again but none of the answers seem to answer my specific question - either that or I'm not getting it. Anyway, as per the title, I'm trying to limit our web developers to a particular folder eg:…
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Chrooted user logged out immediately after login

I am trying to use chroot to setup a user who can login via ssh and limit access to the /var/www directory. The server is on AWS running Amazon Linux 64-bit, openssh installed. I used ssh-keygen to generate the keys. Before I edit the sshd_config…
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Name Server with Multiple IPs

We have multiple internet connections attached to my company's network, from different providers, and there are authoritative name servers on the network as well, also with an IP from each of those networks. The servers have chroot-ed "named"…
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Chef installation in a chroot (packer): not starting services

I'm trying to use packer.io to create a machine image for a server who's deployment I already have automated using Chef (chef-solo specifically), using the amazon-chroot builder and the chef-solo provisioner (with a few shell provisining steps…
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chroot with sftp on centos 6.5

I'm trying to get sftp working with proper chroot configuration on Centos 6.5 server. As for now I get: sftp user@000.000.000.000 User@000.000.000.000's password: Write failed: Broken pipe Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer In…
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server side cd on sftp client connect

Is there a way with sftp to have it configured server-side to run a cd command when a client connects? I have my users thrown in to chroot, the folder has to be root:root chowned and cannot be writable by any other users, there are subfolders owned…
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OpenBSD chroot for nginx/Apache file permissions

I haven't been able to find a satisfying answer on Goole or the various Stack forums: I noticed that files under /var/www (where nginx and I believe Apache are chrooted by default) have permissions mostly of root:daemon or root:bin. This is true of…
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ProFTPD - User can't create directory when in a chroot jail

I've got a CentOS release 6.5 with Webmin and configured ProFTPd 1.34. I've put my users in a chroot jail. When they logon they are chrooted to their own home directory. But there is a problem when users want to create a directory using FTP. When…
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Only allow user SSH access to one directory

I have a server running Centos 6.4 and I need to allow a freelancer access to one folder on the server to upload some code and do some testing - I have set their home directory in /etc/passwd…
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How to keep jailed users from changing directory to parent dirs?

I've chroot users with chroot_local_user=YES chroot_list_enable=YES chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list and I'm the only user in the chroot_list file. Other users log in jailed but when they go to the relative parent directory .. they are able…
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