sshd issue

[dave at math.mit.edu (David Backeberg)]

proftpd supports authentication against a sql database (MySQL or 
PostgreSQL), meaning you can make up accounts that have no bearing in 
reality, except to proftpd, aka, you only give ftp access, and you don't 
have to remember to set their shells to nologin.

This feature, along with the virtualization stuff you've already 
discovered, are just some of the reasons proftpd is so awesome.

Good luck.

-- 
David Backeberg (dave at math.mit.edu)
Network Staff Assistant
MIT Math Dept.
Rm. 2-332            (617) 253-4995

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 trlists at clayst.com wrote:

> I have a few sites hosted on a virtual server with a commercial hosting
> company.  I have root access to the virtual server and can control my
> own configuration for pretty much everything.
>
> I want some users to have a "jailed root" for FTP connections so that I
> can give an FTP login to someone managing site A and prevent them from
> seeing site B's files.
>
> I managed to do this easily for straight FTP logins by adding some
> VirtualHost directives to proftpd.conf.  However users can also access
> the system via SFTP/SSH which I presume must go through sshd (the site
> uses OpenSSH).  I can't find anything in the sshd config file docs that
> lets me control the ftp logins specifically, or that lets me set the
> home directory for a specific user coming in via SSH and prevent them
> from going anywhere above that in the tree.  Anyone know if such a
> thing exists?  Another approach with the same effect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Tom
>
>
>
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