Yes, thanks to Martins info I understand that now. I followed the instructions http://www.howtoforge.com/chrooted_ssh_howto_debian_p2 exactly: So I copied and pasted the text into my command line and hit Return, however, the text when copied and pasted comes out which obviously is screwed up. Does it copy and paste correctly from your browser? The instructions should be to create a file as Martin suggested and chmod and ./ execute it so the program is setup correctly. Anyway, I still have the problem of when I run it I get cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory I'm afraid to make any further moves for fear of screwing something up if I haven't already. Should I start the process over, and would that be safe?
Yes. Not nescessarily as it works fine even without creating a file. All the howtos from Falko are double tested from other developers and they work out of the box without any modification. The way martinfst suggested was only a workaround to make it easier for you to correct errors in the script before it is executed. From which directory are you executing the command?
OK, tried to copy and paste the script using Firefox and it copies the correct formatting, so a warning should be added for users not to copy paste from Internet Explorer, Maxthon or other IE derivatives. However, I still get the same cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory error. I'm running it in /home/chroot If I haven't screwed anything up so far, I think I'll just take your suggestion to only give clients ftp access, which is what I've done in the past, I just thought some might appreciate ssh access for the extra security, particularly as winscp is so easy to use.
Is there another place to download openssh-4.2p1-chroot.tar.gz, cause sourceforge gives me this error: Code: mayhem@zeroseven:/tmp$ wget http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/download/openssh-4.2p1-chroot.tar.gz --11:07:35-- http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/download/openssh-4.2p1-chroot.tar.gz => `openssh-4.2p1-chroot.tar.gz' Resolving chrootssh.sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.209 Connecting to chrootssh.sourceforge.net|66.35.250.209|:80... failed: Connection refused. maybe someone could email it to me? mayhem [dot] nu [at] gmail [dot] com Many thanks
