Re: [Jailkit-users] Jail for Sftp user

[Olivier Sessink]

Patrick Humpal wrote:
> I've jailed an sftp user on my web server to their web site
> directory. However, my only complaint is that the user has to enter
> the "/" in order to return to the root of their directory.  This
> would not be a problem, however, this particular user also uses
> DreamWeaver to edit web pages and Contribute for authors to publish
> their work (not my choice of course).

is there a specific problem with DreamWeaver?

> Is there a way to set the user's home to be:
> 
> /var/www/html/userswebsite/
> 
> instead of defaulting to:
> 
> /var/www/html/userswebsite/home/username/

the jail directory has to be owned by root (if not this is a serious
security issue, if the jail directory can be written by regular users
there is a possible local root exploit), and the home directory has to
owned by the user. These requirements have to be met.

If this doesn't help, you could make a symlink "root -> /" in the users
home directory, perhaps that can solve a problem?

regards,
        Olivier