Re: [Jailkit-users] I can't add jailed users

[Becky Johnson]

Thanks for responding. My boss made me do a restore from back up so that we 
could try a different approach and now the log files are gone.... I'll see if I 
can replicate this again.

Thank you,
Becky


On Aug 9, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Olivier Sessink wrote:

> On 08/09/2010 09:55 PM, Becky Johnson wrote:
>> Today I set up jailkit and no matter what I cannot get users to login
>> properly. Here is a complete list of what I tired.
>> 
>> I wanted a jailed folder with scp and sftp.
>> 
>> 
>> First I did these commands:
>> 
>> mkdir /var/www/vhosts/NAME_OF_DIRECTORY jk_init -j
>> /var/www/vhosts/NAME_OF_DIRECTORY jk_lsh jk_init -j
>> /var/www/vhosts/NAME_OF_DIRECTORY sftp jk_init -j
>> /var/www/vhosts/NAME_OF_DIRECTORY scp
>> 
>> Then
>> 
>> adduser demo passwd demo
>> 
>> (make the password for the user)
>> 
>> Then:
>> 
>> # jk_jailuser -j /var/www/vhosts/wimaxcsv test home directory
>> /home/test is not within /var/www/vhosts/wimaxcsv/, move the
>> directory contents?
>> 
>> Said no.
> 
> you'll have to mannualy make sure that the home directory exists inside
> the jail, otherwise the usser cannot log in.
> 
>> We just want to keep home/  at the very top of our whole directory.
>> The user folder was created at /home/demo. which is what we want. But
>> it still didn't work.
>> 
>> jk_jailuser -j /var/www/vhosts/NAME_OF_DIRECTORY demo
> 
> the home directory must be inside the chroot jail, otherwise there is no
> home directory for the user. (the user cannot see anything outside the
> jail!)
> 
>> Could not connect to server.  The user name or password was not
>> accepted by the server.
> 
> what is in the logfiles? try:
> 
> grep jk_ /var/log/*
> 
> Olivier
> 
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