[SGVLUG] OpenSSH sftp and rssh

[James Neff]

Greetings fellow LUGers,

I'm trying to get my sFTP setup and need some assistance.

I am trying to accomplish these two things:

1)  sFTP restricts the user to their home directory.
2)  User accounts only allow for sFTP login, no shell access.

I've got OpenSSH 4.0p1 installed and working.   I can login just fine
using FileZilla as my sFTP client. 

I tried following these instructions
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1576/ to restrict the user to the
/home directory but when I try to open a connection my client returns
this error:  "Fatal: unable to initialise SFTP: could not connect". 

Here is the relevant entries in my /var/log/message file:

Mar 24 09:23:26 ftp sshd: startup succeeded
Mar 24 09:23:32 ftp sshd[1843]: Accepted password for jdoe from
::ffff:192.168.2.8 port 2460 ssh2
Mar 24 09:23:38 ftp sshd[1849]: subsystem request for sftp
Mar 24 09:23:38 ftp rssh[1850]: setting log facility to LOG_USER
Mar 24 09:23:38 ftp rssh[1850]: allowing sftp to all users
Mar 24 09:23:38 ftp rssh[1850]: setting umask to 022
Mar 24 09:23:38 ftp rssh[1850]: chrooting all users to /home
Mar 24 09:23:38 ftp rssh[1850]: chroot cmd line:
/usr/libexec/rssh_chroot_helper 3 "/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server"

... and then it stops.

I've tried the other route to patch OpenSSH with chroot but I can't find
the step-by-step instructions to do this.  Is there a complied RPM out
there that has the chroot patch already included?

I'm using Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Cooker) for i586.

Thanks in advance,
James