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Set up chroot for LDAP users in RHEL6

I have been working on this for 2 days now and am about to give up so someone please help. I have a Red Hat 6 server joined to my active directory domain. Logins work just fine under normal ...
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Creating a Safe Web Server

Web server hosts multiple websites. Multiple users update each website. User home directory /home/user1 /home/user2 Web directory /var/www/site1 /var/www/site2 Each user uses SFTP to upload ...
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1answer
560 views

SFTP: give user access to folder outside home

I have a machine running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with OpenSSH server installed. I have created a user with a jailed home account. When I log in with the user's account, I can only access his home (duh). ...
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332 views

Start SSH session in some other directory than their home directory and lock them there

I've set up a SSH server which I've let some friends log into, both via SSH and FileZilla. I put a symbolic link to two hard drives in their home directories so that they could access some files. This ...
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Disable direct login for normal users (like oracle) in linux but allow scp and sftp?

Is it possible to disable direct login for normal users (like oracle) in linux but allow scp and sftp for that use?
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Why is it possible to leave CHROOT with this config?

I'm trying to create the user lenny, that has read and write permissions in the folder /home/lenny/ and has no shell but only access via SFTP. I'm doing the following: useradd lenny mkdir /home/lenny ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 SFTP chroot jail problem

I am creating a SFTP server with Chroot Jail. The problem is user cannot log into the home directory. I need to keep ChrootDirectory value to one directory above the user's home directory ...
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1answer
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Chrooted SFTP with full access to SSH stopped working (Debian)

I've got a home server on Debian 6 for backups. I'd like to setup chrooted SFTP environment with SSH access for some users (only for my knowledge, there are two users now). It almost works or rather ...
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Restricting an SSH/SCP/SFTP user to a directory

Is there a simple way to restrict an SCP/SFTP user to a directory? All methods that I've come across require me to set a chroot jail up by copying binaries, but I don't think that should be necessary. ...