I am trying to allow ssh access to web clients so they can see their web direrctory via ssh but not be able to browse the directory structure beyond their web root.

I have found two tools that assist in this procedure.

(1)jailkit
(2)jail

I am using jail currently and the setup seemed to go smoothly but now that I am at the step to launch the jail app I get errors about the user's home directories not being configured for jail.

Jail does not seem to have very thorough documentation and no support forum so I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with this app and the directory error?

I am also open to other suggestions for controlling directory access over ssh.

Thanks to all,

-vbsaltydog

I used JailKit at one put but now of late I've just been using either Chroot SSH or one of the similar patches to OpenSSH itself that does chrooting. I don't know anything about jail (thought that waqs FreeBSD only?), but the ways I've used are not particularly hard to get working -- just make sure that all of the libraries, devices, and applications needed by the user are included in the jail (ldd plus some testing really helps here).

Realistically speaking, unless you are on a machine with lots of critical data data / potential for abuse, there's no harm in letting users browse the filesystem. They won't be able to access anything sensitive if permissions are set correctly.