[SGVLUG] chroot on sftp - UPDATE

[Claude Felizardo]

hit send just a little to quickly...  per the instructions at the
netadmintools website, make sure you do a ldd on your sftp-server
executable to verify that all of it's required libraries are available
as well.

On 11/17/06, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/06, James Neff <jneff at tethyshealth.com> wrote:
> > After following new directions from this site:
> >
> > http://www.netadmintools.com/art294.html
> >
> > I was able to get an SSH session chroot'ed but my sFTP is still not
> > working yet.
> >
> > The debugging output from my client looks like this:
> >
> > Trace:    FzSFtp.exe: Ssh.c(6483): Access granted
> > Trace:    FzSFtp.exe: Ssh.c(7161): Opened channel for session
> > Trace:    FzSFtp.exe: Ssh.c(7416): Started a shell/command
> > Trace:    FzSFtp.exe: Ssh.c(788): Server sent command exit status 127
> > Trace:    FzSFtp.exe: Ssh.c(5909): All channels closed. Disconnecting
> > Trace:    FzSFtp.exe: Ssh.c(2535): Server closed network connection
> > Response:    Fatal: unable to initialise SFTP: could not connect
> > Trace:    SftpControlSocket.cpp(2393): DoClose(0)   caller=0x003de05c
> > Trace:    SftpControlSocket.cpp(2423): ResetOperation(4100)
> > caller=0x003de05c
> > Error:    Unable to connect!
> >
> > I think I'm making progress because at least the ssh part works.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction to get sFTP to cooperate?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
>
> I've seen something similar in the past when I was playing with cvs
> and ssh.  if you have ssh working via chroot jail, can you see if the
> sftp server is available?  oh, a google search of "Fatal: unable to
> initialise SFTP: could not connect " suggests checking your
> sshd_config file for the sftp entry.
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2005-September/014926.html
>
> on the linux box i'm looking at now, here's my entry:
>
> Subsystem       sftp    /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
>
> so make sure the referenced file is available in your chroot jail.
>
> claude
>