Re: [Jailkit-users] Beginner - Problems creating jail

[dev]

Hello Kevin, 

welcome aboard. 

> Getting this message in /var/log/auth
> Jan  2 23:57:49 Sudarshan jk_chrootsh[12975]: abort, path
> /home/jail/./home/kyle is not a directory 
>
> Relevant entries in my /etc/passwd are:
> kyle:x:1001:1001::/home/jail/./home/kyle:/usr/sbin/jk_chrootsh

[...] 

> Both the /home/jail and /home/kyle directories exist:
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root      root      4096 2008-01-02 23:42 jail
> drwxr-xr-x  2 kyle      kyle      4096 2008-01-02 23:28 kyle

This looks ok. However /home/kyle must be within /home/jail (because you're 
jailing kyle within the jail). So move your directory /home/kyle to within 
home/jail, then you will have the directory /home/jail/home/kyle and it 
should run just fine.
If you're used to linux/unix-style ways of adressing directories you will be 
aware that a "." has the meaning of "this directory/the current directory", 
so /home/jail/./home/kyle is just an other way of saying 
/home/jail/home/kyle. There is of course a deeper reason why jailkit does 
that. If you're interested in it, dig yourself deeper into jailkit (man 
pages) or into some old mailing list posts. 

Have a nice day,
Stephen