Hey guys, Looking through multiple sites and looking at all of the different strategies on locking a user into a particular set of directories. It would seem that using chroot is the only way to accomplish this. I'm trying to migrate from my old FTP server ProFTPd to using SFTP on OpenSSH. While RSSH seems to be only one of two products that I can use to give SFTP access without giving shell access, it seems to lack the one thing that might solve all of our problems around using a chroot jail. In ProFTPd there is an option to set the default root to anything we want (including the user's home directory). This is accomplished by some programming in ProFTPd itself as I never setup any chroot jails on my system. I read on some website somewhere that SSH has the same capability of creating a default root without actually being a chroot jail (you don't need to do the copying or linking of extra files). Is there some way that RSSH can implement this sort of functionality? I know that RSSH isn't taking the place of OpenSSH like the commercial SSH would, but I wouldn't think that it would be too hard to introduce this sort of functionality to simply change what the client sees as the root (unless it is already possible and someone is keeping quiet about it). If this sort of functionality was introduced then we could all kinda forget about all the scripting and maintenance problems of maintaining chroot jails on a system with a lot of user accounts. I'm curious to think what other people think of introducing this functionality.
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