Re: [Jailkit-users] Re: Jailkit-users Digest, Vol 22, Issue 5

[Olivier Sessink]

Wei-Yen Tan wrote:
> Hi there Oliver,
>
> Thank you for the reply. I was away for a while and just returned back 
> from a trip and just managed to have a look at this just now.
>
> Thanks for the link to the auth.log. I am kind of new and have learnt a 
> lot extra in terms of looking at logs for diagnosing linux issues. I 
> tracked the initial problem to a permission error...having to set the 
> executables correct and such. Now I get the message in the auth.log is:
>
>
> Jul 28 22:55:09 xxx jk_chrootsh[26801]: now entering jail /home/sftproot 
> for user test (1002)
> Jul 28 22:55:09 xxx jk_lsh[26801]: jk_lsh version 2.3, started
> Jul 28 22:55:09 xxx jk_lsh[26801]: executing command 
> '/usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server' for user test (1002)
> Jul 28 22:55:09 xxx sshd[26800]: (pam_unix) session closed for user test

the jailkit configuration seems OK. Most common issue if sftp-server 
doesn't start is that /dev/null is missing in the jail. Can you check that?

Olivier