ChrootDirectory option for SunSSH server [PSARC/2009/155 Self Review]

[James Carlson]

Darren J Moffat writes:
> 	directory. However, with the plain SSH or the external SFTP
> 	implementation, one has to properly populate the chroot directory with
> 	(at least) a user's shell and all its shared libraries, the dynamic
> 	linker, and possibly terminal databases and devices like /dev/null etc.

That population task is tough enough to get right that we provide a
script with ftpd (ftpconfig) that sets up a usable chroot anon ftp
environment.  Would something like that be useful here?  (Perhaps not
for internal-sftp, but rather for an ordinary user account being set
up for chroot use.)

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