Re: [Jailkit-dev] jk_jailuser bugs

[Olivier Sessink]

Stephen Tallowitz wrote:
> Hello Olivier,
> 
> sorry about posting my comments on jk_jailuser to the jailkit-users
> list, it really should have gone on this list

no worries, your testing is welcome on any list ;-)

> I've figured out the error. My /home is on a different filesystem
> than /srv, thus just creating a new hard link within the same
> filesystem will not work, the data really has to be copied to the
> other filesystem (creating a new hard link is what os.rename() does
> in python). Follow this thread in the mailing list for possible
> solutions: 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-February/266552.html

ahh shutil.move is probably a good solution

> When jk_jailuser isn't able to copy (or move) the home directory,
> there are some interesting follow-up effects:

 "interesting follow-up effects" is a nice term for bug ;-)

> There are probably a few more situations, where moving (or copying)
> the home directory isn't successful. One case I can think of is that
> the destination filesystem gets full in the middle of transfering the
> home directory, what should jk_jailuser do then?

that is a good point, probably:
1) not delete the source
2) warn the user that moving failed

I hope shutil.move() does that

thanks!

        Olivier