Hi all, I have setup an SFTP server to share files/photos whatever with family, I have setup the user and they can log in, they have read/write access to there home dir, but can climb up through the files above and read them and download them, this I don't want!

Ideally I should have the user not be able to go beyond their home dir. I had a look through some commands to do with chmod but couldn't see anything there that might help.

Is there away to restrict users from going beyond there home dir, either by sshd.conf or changing the read write properties of the /home file.

Thanks

isnt there some button that says lock users in home directory?

gr:jeroen

Didn't think so, but will have a look anyway.
Anyone else?

Cheers

N

As far as I'm aware of Openssh by default doesn't support chroot in sftp.

However, a quick search in google yielded few interesting results:

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...G=Search&meta=
http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/

I built a jail, full chrooted environment to accomplish this. All of my hosting clients are chrooted into their respective homes and have jailed(chrooted) ssh/sftp/ftp access to the server. There's a very nice tutorial on how to build the jail here --> http://www.tjw.org/chroot-login-HOWTO/ and to get the jailed sftp copy the sftp-server binary and the required libraries into the jail.

Hope this helps,
linux_terror