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

[Olivier Sessink]

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> The issue I am having is logback sees the logged in user as the parent
> user web1 so is trying to login to it's home directory not the logged
> in users directory. The other issue I had is i also have to chroot the
> home of web1 so both users have to be chrooted ie /path/to/site/./home/
> web1 and  /path/to/site/./home/testuser. Ive also had to add flags
> into the ini config to disable user and group checks or else it wont
> login the user because its trying to impersonate web1 not the logged
> in user.
>
> The other issue i found is if i add another user to the chroot say
> testuser2 , at the bash prompt it thinks testuser2 is testuser1.

latest cvs now has full support for multiple usernames that share the same
UID. I've tested it, and it works. The jail security is not affected by
the changes (as long as you realize that those users have exactly the same
rights, they are the same user as far as the kernel is concerned).

Olivier