Re: [Jailkit-users] permission problem

[Olivier Sessink]

jstiller wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am trying to setup jailkit so a remote user can access the server 
> using ssh.  Everything seems to be ok except I get the error "Could not 
> chdir to home directory /home/jail/./home/testuser: Permission denied"

please send
ls -l /
ls -l /home/
ls -l /home/jail/
ls -l /home/jail/home/

> in the /home dir are the directories
>  
> drwxrwx---  12 testuser testuser 4096 Nov  7 10:11 testuser
> drwxrwx---   8 root      root      4096 Nov  7 15:08 jail
> According to the error message there is apermission problem.. can you 
> tell me what the correct permissions should be.

I usually use 0755 (drwxr-xr-x)
chmod 0755 /home
chmod 0755 /home/jail
chmod 0755 /home/jail/home

> It is authenticating the password correcly so up to that pint is is 
> working.  If I enter an incorrect password the error message is 
> completely different so I feel the login portionis working correctly and 
> the problem must be with the permissions.
>  
> In the /jail/etc/group file is:

I assume you mean /home/jail/etc/group ?

> testuser:x:501:
>  
> In the /jail/etc/password file is:
> testuser:x:501:501::/home/testuser:/bin/bash
>  
> In the /etc/passwd file there is a line:
> testuser:x:501:501::/home/jail/./home/testuser:/usr/sbin/jk_chrootsh
>  
> in the /var/log/messages file are these lines:
> Nov  7 17:59:14 localhost jk_chrootsh[23594]: abort, path /home/jail is 
> setgid

hmm funny, setgid normally shows up in a directory listing as
drwxrws---

setting the permissions as shown above should help.

regards,
        Olivier