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Need Help Create ssh user who can only access one directory

hi linus guru,

Need your help, I would like to create ssh user that only has access to one folder

existing Directory: /home/aps/logs

user can only have read only access on logs folder

Thanks, appreciate your help..

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Originally Posted by odie (Post 5314235)

hi linus guru,
Need your help, I would like to create ssh user that only has access to one folder existing Directory: /home/aps/logs

user can only have read only access on logs folder

Please see the "Question Guidelines" link in my posting signature. You don't provide any details, such as version/distro of Linux, or what you've done/tried so far, or what version of SSH. Since 4.8.1, you have a "ChrootDirectory" directive, which you can see in the SSHD documentation, or in the man page of sshd_config. The easiest course of action is to set your user(s) to be in a particular group, then shove something like this:

Code:

Match group jailedusers

          ChrootDirectory /home/jailed

          AllowTcpForwarding no

Restart SSH, and any users in the "jailedusers" directory will ONLY see their home directory, and nothing else.