Hi dears,

I setup a chroot environment for allowing user to connect my server without having access to the files.

This works pretty well, but the problem is that when they log in, they are put in the / of the chroot. I would like them to be put in /home/$user as soon as they log in so that they do not see the directories in /

what i did is to put in each ~/.bashrc file the following command:

cd $HOME

but this does ot work, in fact it seems that when they log in the bashrc file is not used.

here is my chroot command:
nb the home dir is in /pub
when i am logged in, if i run bash, then bashrc is executed.

Do someone have any idea on how to redirect each user to theire home directory

You seem to be chrooting them to /pub, in which case their home directory would have to be /pub/home/$USER or else they would not be able to see their own files.

thank you Matir for reading me.
Yes, the directory /pub/home/$USER exists, and if i log in with a user that is chrooted and type cd
or cd $HOME
He is put in this directory.

My problem is that i would like the user to be put directly in his home directory as soon as he logs in.

Hrrm... have you looked at pam_chroot instead of a roll-your-own chroot solution?

thnak you so much for this information, i will have a look at it.
My problem is that i want to put those account on a separate hard drive.

I will keep you in touch.

regards

Yes, because its a login shell, man bash for part INVOCATION

Put it in /etc/profile for example.

Good catch. I forgot that I had my bashrc and bash_profile symlinked to each other so it will always get read.