Re: [Jailkit-users] Suse 64bit SFTP problem

[Olivier Sessink]

Jere Retzer wrote:
> I'm now working on my target Suse machine, which uses 64bit linux
> having worked out the bugs on a test machine, which uses 32 bit linux
> 
> 
> I'm able to get the user into the jail, as reflected in my messages
> log but the session immediately terminates. When I use WinSCP, for
> example to test with the server it says "Cannot initialize SFTP
> protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?" Here are (edited)
> messages from localhost:
> 
> Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for [username] from 127.0.0.1 port
> 52188 ssh2 subsystem request for sftp now entering jail /home/[jail]
> for user [username] (1003) jk_lsh version 2.3, started cannot find
> user name for uid 1003: Success
> 
> I've discovered that the path for the sftp-server is different from
> the 32b to the 64b Suse, where the executable is in
> /usr/lib64/ssh/sftp-server I'm wondering if there are some associated
> files that need to get copied for the sftp-server to run.

if you use jk_cp to copy sftp-server into the jail the libraries will be
copied too.

you might want to check the archives of this list, there are some
postings from people that had problems with 64bit machines, I think most
were lacking the 64 bit equivalents for libnss* in their jails (from
/lib64 ?).

regards,
        Olivier