A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children.
Questions tagged [chroot]
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Chroot within chroot
I'm using Centos 5.2 and when I try to make a chroot jail using the script, I get:
Copying libraries for /usr/bin/scp.
(0x00007fff17bfe000)
cp: cannot stat `(0x00007fff17bfe000)': No such file or directory
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I am currently using on a rackspace…
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Setting up account to upload to a website subdirectory
I need to setup a stfp account on Ubuntu 18.04 that meets the following requirement:
Can upload to subfolder of website i.e. example.com/subfolder/
Uploaded files belong to www-data group so are visible to nginx
User cannot see outside of the given…
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Linux , restrict users/processes to one folder, chroot in docker container?
I'm looking for a way to run multiple python/php apps on one server. Each app in it's own /bob_app folder.
I need for users not to be able to run sth like:
>>> import glob
>>> glob.glob("/*")
['/boot', '/cdrom', '/dev', '/lib64', '/run',…
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Chroot Jailing groups via sshd_config for FTP results in connection aborted for all members in that group
I am attempting to chroot jail using the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. My FTP server is vsfptd, and while I know how to chroot jail using vsftpd's config, I want to try it using sshd_config. However, modifying the sshd_config file as I am is preventing…
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I can't create chroot user with full permissions
I am trying to create chroot user but i want to give him a permissions to create and delete files and directories. I have Ubuntu server installed on virtualbox and i am connecting to it from my host machine Windows 7 using WinSCP. And i am also…
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SSH stopped working for no reason
Please help. Everything was working fine. How can I connect to the command line now?
Configuration
Amazon EC2 server
Ubuntu & Apache2
Only one user (root - not real name) has SSH access, publickey only
All other users allowed SFTP access, chrooted…
csi
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process user differently using ssh key
I wonder if it is possible to chroot/chdir/process the same unix user differently using the ssh key used in the ssh connexion...
The use case could be a rsync server using only one linux/local user for many virtual account.
It's somewhat how…
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Process still running from a deleted chroot?
so I come to you with a somewhat interesting problem.
I had a chroot running that had an entire lamp server installed and running on it. I tried to purge and remove the lamp server but messed up somewhere so I figured if I just go back and remove…
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