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    Default /home/virtfs ???

    Does anyone else have a /home/virtfs/ on their servers? As far as I can tell, if a user logs in via SSH, a directory gets created here with his username and a bind mount is made

    I checked the contents of /proc/mounts and I saw the following:

    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/lib ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/usr/lib ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/usr/sbin ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/usr/share ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/usr/bin ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/usr/man ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/usr/X11R6 ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/usr/kerberos ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/var/spool ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/var/lib ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/var/run ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/var/log ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/home/jomant ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/tmp ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/dev ext2 rw 0 0
    /dev/root /home/virtfs/jomant/bin ext2 rw 0 0
    /proc /home/virtfs/jomant/proc proc rw 0 0

    Anyone know what's going on here?

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    This is the jailshell - It creates a virtual area for the accounts for tighter security.
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