Re: [Jailkit-users] Some problems with home directories and users with same user id

[Olivier Sessink]

Daniel Rossi wrote:

> ive worked around it by setting USER and HOME to $LOGINUSER or whatever 
> it is in bashrc. Then call cd to move into the right directory. So 
> ownership of the files should still be ok without the same user id ? I 
> believe if the files are owned different to that uid suexec for instance 
> in apache will complain hence why its that that way. I see in the 
> jk_chroot source that the environment variables are set there, but 
> instead of the user logging in its the user of the user id. Are you 
> saying my work around is not doable ?

if it works that it's doable ;-)

I think it's also possible to rewrite some of the jk_chrootsh code such 
that such a setup will work with jk_chrootsh without sacrificing any of 
the security checks.

regards,
        Olivier