Re: [Jailkit-users] Jailkit failure to install on 32bit Ubuntu 11.10

[Olivier Sessink]

On 11/29/2011 04:02 PM, Dan wrote:
> Before I forget, thanks again for the help and useful tool set.  I have
> been using it for years and have really enjoyed it.  Back to the bug hunt...
>
> FYI, after some Googling I tweaked the make file to use -pthread instead
> of -lpthread and got the following outputs.

thanks, we'll have to switch to that in the configure script.

> It at least builds and
> installs but I'm having issues with a user connection for SFTP only.  I
> can hit the box and authenticate but I get dropped shortly there after.
>
> FAILED SFTP JAIL CONNECTION:
> Nov 29 09:51:52 portal2 sshd[31782]: subsystem request for sftp by user
> upload
> Nov 29 09:51:52 portal2 jk_chrootsh[31783]: now entering jail /jail for
> user upload (1001) with arguments -c /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
> Nov 29 09:51:52 portal2 jk_lsh[31783]: jk_lsh version 2.14, started
> Nov 29 09:51:52 portal2 jk_lsh[31783]: cannot find user info for USER
> upload: Success

the 'cannot find user info' usually means that it fails to get the user 
information from <jail>/etc/passwd, often this is an issue with libnss 
plugins that are missing (search the archives for this list for more info).

Olivier

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