http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518238

Summary: openSSH chroot security settings faulty Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: x86 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: marcus@swedcore.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: ---

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060200 SUSE/3.0.11-0.1.1 Firefox/3.0.11

Whenever i tried to setup a chroot environment with OpenSSH the security settings for the user folder must be root or OpenSSH doesn't work, the only solution for now is to either create subfolders in the users chroot folder where the user can have write permissions or land them one step up in the hierarchy and thus making them see other chroot folder which is not good.

I followed this Wiki page to the letter: http://en.opensuse.org/Openssh#SFTP_chroot_with_ChrootDirectory

I have Swedish community users trying to set this up to with same result as me.

This thread takes up the same issue: http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=122640731518850&w=2

But the solution mentioned there is not acceptable because as it stats on the Wiki you make one folder the chroot folder and then mapping the users home folder relative to the chroot folder, in this scenario the users should get write permissions to his own folder, but that is not possible, thus breaking the functionality intended.

So the question is, is this a bug or is it designed to act like this?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce: Done accordingly to this wiki entry: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSSH Actual Results: Gets a read only home folder root

Expected Results: Getting a writable home folder, where they can create on folder and upload files directly to the root of their home folder.