jail shell

[rusel]

Hello, I can`t find info about restrictions of jailshell ... could somebody tell me something about it?

Regards.

[kris1351]

It allows your users to have SSH access that is limited to their home directory. They can't leave their directory and browse other customers home directories.

[calande2]

Hello,

I set up jail shell for an account, then I SSHed to the server using this account username/password. I was able to browse outside the home directory of this user.

How come?

Thanks,

[chirpy]

What were you browsing? Most of the directories that can be seen in jailshell are symlinks to required binaries/libraries and not the real file system. Jailshells are good, but they can only be so good bearing in mind that you're still allowing SSH logins on a shared server, so they're not foolproof.

[calande2]

Ok, actually if I type cd /, I can go to the root directory, I can view all directories. Is there a way to prevent the user from going out of his home directory?

[allpar]

I have been trying to find out the same thing. Using a jailshelled account I can still go up to /etc/ and view the contents of ANY lf the files.