[Jailkit-users] Run command as jailed user from script ran as root?

[Harn_Hua Ng]

Hi,

I am new to jailkit, having just installed and configured with some success.

Things look good so far.

I'd like to run a command in the jail as the jailed user, from a script that is run by root outside of the jail.

Normally I think this can be achieved by "su - jaileduser -c "path/to/script/inside/jail"

but I think there are problems with this approach:

i) using su is bad?

ii) I get the following output:

su: warning: cannot change directory to /path/to/script/inside/jail: Permission denied

/bin/bash: /path/to/script/inside/jail: Permission denied

Is there an easier way to accomplish this?

Or should I do something like setting up ssh within the jail and ssh using the jailuser's identity into localhost to run the jaileduser's script?

Thank you for any advice / ideas!

Cheers,

- harnhua