Comments for Dave Lozier

Comment on Create a MySQL Database from the Command Line by Max

Max — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:15:44 +0000

If you’re already all set up with privs (or have one user), you can also do this:

mysql -u$USER -p$PASSWORD -h$HOST -e ‘create database x’

This will execute the command and exit without having to even go in to the mysql prompt.

Comment on YUI Simple LightBox using SimpleDialog by bang

bang — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:50:52 +0000

thanks for script, i really really need it
thanks again!

Comment on Chrooted SFTP on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 using RSSH by marc-andre

marc-andre — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:26:24 +0000

I have the same issue as heckeron, no connection possible, but no errors either. Not in syslog nor in auth.log.

Would be thankfully for any help !

Comment on Chrooted SFTP on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 using RSSH by hackeron

hackeron — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:06:34 +0000

I followed the guilds and on the client I see:

$ sftp kostia@myhost
Connecting to myhost…
kostia@myhost’s password:
Connection closed

On the server I see:

May 7 03:04:10 myhost rssh[8608]: setting log facility to LOG_USER
May 7 03:04:10 myhost rssh[8608]: allowing sftp to all users
May 7 03:04:10 myhost rssh[8608]: setting umask to 022
May 7 03:04:10 myhost rssh[8608]: chrooting all users to /home/chroot
May 7 03:04:10 myhost rssh[8608]: chroot cmd line: /usr/lib/rssh/rssh_chroot_helper 2 “/usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server”

No errors what so ever, but connection is just closed

Any ideas how to troubleshoot?

Comment on Chrooted SFTP on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 using RSSH by Dave

Dave — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:11:51 +0000

Hey Scott! Sorry for the late reply on this. If you set chrootpath to another destination it may possibly not have had the permissions to create the path structure. You can perhaps create them manually after the fact and see if that allows everything else to fall into place. Please let me know how it goes. Thanks!

Comment on Chrooted SFTP on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 using RSSH by Scott

Scott — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:32:08 +0000

Dave

I followed your instruction but failed to get it to work. I suspect that the “~/mkchroot.sh” didn’t quite get made executable successfully. I don’t see the “$jail_dir” directory. I set the chrootpath to my desired rather than /home/chroot. Does the chrootpath have to be /home/chroot? How do I make sure that ~/mkchroot.sh gets made executable successfully?

Scott

Comment on Chrooted SFTP on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 using RSSH by Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:26:32 +0000

Hi Charlie,

You may possibly need a symbolic link to sftp-server.

sudo ln /home/chroot/usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server /home/chroot/usr/lib/

Check the path with rssh -v as well.

Please let me know if that cures it. Thanks!

Comment on Chrooted SFTP on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 using RSSH by Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:50:12 +0000

I just followed your tutorial for a Hardy server running on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, but I’m running in to trouble- my chrooted users can not log in: they get an error: “Fatal: unable to initialise SFTP on server: could not connect” while other users remain just fine. I’m having trouble finding the problem via Google, any ideas?

Comment on Chrooted SFTP on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 using RSSH by Dave

Dave — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:11:43 +0000

Hey Corey!

The SFTP users will have access to everything in /home/chroot but they should not be able to leave the /home/chroot area. When trying to SSH in do you get disconnected with a notice that the account is limited to SFTP only? If so then that’s a good sign things are working. (along with not being able to leave /home/chroot)

Cheers,
~Dave

Comment on Chrooted SFTP on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 using RSSH by corey

corey — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:26:56 +0000

I followed your howto, but i keep stumbling onto one problem. The sftp user has access to all the files from /home/chroot on up… Including any additional users that you add later. How did you go about restricting the users to their /home/chroot/home directory without breaking their ability to log into the sftp?

Please let me know.

Thanks

Corey