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ABOUT

Jailkit is a set of utilities to limit user accounts to specific files using chroot() and or specific commands. Setting up a jail is a lot easier using these utilities.

See 'man jailkit' for more detailed info on the different utilities in this package. If you have not yet installed jailkit you can see this man page using 'man man/jailkit.8'.

REQUIREMENTS

The most elementary tools are written in C and only need libc and libpthreads (available on almost any Linux system and most other posix compliant systems).

The scripts are written in python, so they need python installed.

Jailkit is an open source project written by Olivier Sessink. It is released under a modified BSD licence.

EXAMPLE

Suppose you need to create an account 'test' that can do sftp and scp only. You want it in a jail called /home/sftproot where it will have a homedirectory /home/test

#initialise the jail mkdir /home/sftproot jk_init -j /home/sftproot jk_lsh jk_init -j /home/sftproot sftp jk_init -j /home/sftproot scp

create the account

adduser test jk_jailuser -j /home/sftproot test

edit the jk_lsh configfile in the jail (man jk_lsh)

you can use every editor you want, I chose 'joe'

joe /home/sftproot/etc/jailkit/jk_lsh.ini

now restart jk_socketd

killall jk_socketd jk_socketd

test the account

sftp test@localhost

check the logs if everything is correct

tail /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/auth.log

NOTES ON VARIOUS APPLICATIONS

cvs - cvs needs /tmp/ for temporary files procmail - needs /dev/null

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