[Jailkit-users] Help Needed: sftp fails when Jail user tries to login

[aravind kamath]

Hi All,

I have tried using Jailkit version 'jailkit-2.15.tar.gz' on Ubuntu as well as SuSE 11.

I am trying to configure this machine as SFTP server where users can login to the Jail and add/del files to it.

I followed the instructions in the webpage http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/howtos_sftp_scp_only.html

On both the machines, I am not able to login to the jail with the jail users created.

I have followed below set of commands to install and configure Jailkit

2. cd /opt
3. sudo gunzip jailkit-2.15.tar.gz
   
4. sudo tar -xvf jailkit-2.15.tar
5. cd jailkit-2.15
6. sudo ./configure
7. cat INSTALL.txt
8. sudo make
9. sudo make install
10. sudo cp extra/jailkit /etc/init.d/jailkit
11. sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/jailkit
12. sudo jk_init -j /opt/sftpjail jk_lsh
13. sudo jk_init -j /opt/sftpjail sftp
14. sudo jk_init -j /opt/sftpjail scp
15. sudo useradd test
16. sudo jk_jailuser -m -j /opt/sftpjail test
17. sudo killall jk_socketd
18. sudo jk_socketd

I then tried to login locally using below command

sftp address@hidden

Connecting to localhost...

address@hidden's password:

Connection closed

Content from jk_lsh.ini

susepc1 etc/jailkit> pwd

/opt/sshd-sftp-chroot/etc/sftpjail

susepc1 etc/jailkit> cat jk_lsh.ini

## example for a user

#[test]

paths= /usr/bin, /usr/lib/

executables= /usr/bin/scp, /usr/lib/sftp-server

#allow_word_expansion = 0

#umask = 002

#

##example for a group, there should be only 1 space inbetween the words!

#[group users]

#paths = /usr/bin

#executables = /usr/bin/cvs

#allow_word_expansion = 0

#environment= HELIX_PATH=/opt/RealPlayer/, TMP=/tmp/

I tried to google out a lot to figure out the issue. However it went in vain.

Not sure, why Jain user 'test' is not able to sftp to the Jail?

Can you help. I am not able to figure out the issue.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Aravind