rssh - Connection closed

[MikeL_4]

I have installed rssh on one of our Red Hat 5.3 servers, and set it up for sftp only, and chroot...

When I try to do an sftp from another server, it asked for the user id's password, and then immediately gives me the messahe: Connection closed...

=>sftp sftpduka@sftpserver
Connecting to sftpserver...
sftpduka@sftpserver's password:
Connection closed
:=>

The following is put into the /var/log/messages on the sftpserver:
Jan 13 17:33:58 sftpserver rssh_chroot_helper[16099]: new session for sftpduka, UID=609
Jan 13 12:33:58 sftpserver rssh[16099]: chrooting all users to /t3public/public_ftp
Jan 13 17:33:58 sftpserver rssh_chroot_helper[16099]: user's home dir is /t3public/public_ftp
Jan 13 12:33:58 sftpserver rssh[16099]: chroot cmd line: /usr/libexec/rssh_chroot_helper 2 "/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server"
Jan 13 17:33:58 sftpserver rssh_chroot_helper[16099]: couldn't find /t3public/public_ftp in chroot jail
Jan 13 17:33:58 sftpserver rssh_chroot_helper[16099]: chrooted to /t3public/public_ftp
Jan 13 17:33:58 sftpserver rssh_chroot_helper[16099]: changing working directory to / (inside jail)

Is anyone familiar with rssh that may be able to help ??

[root@duounfs01 t3public]# ls -al /t3public
total 44
drwxrwxr-x 7 root infinys 4096 Jan 13 10:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 4096 Jan 5 21:25 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 infduka infinys 4096 Jan 13 10:06 infduka
drwxrwxr-x 3 infduki infinys 4096 Jan 13 09:14 infduki
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Nov 20 10:13 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jan 13 10:24 public_ftp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 20 15:14 UAT_FTP
[root@duounfs01 t3public]# ls -al /t3public/public_ftp
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jan 13 10:24 .
drwxrwxr-x 7 root infinys 4096 Jan 13 10:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 10:19 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 10:37 dev
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 13 10:08 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 sftpduka sftponly 4096 Jan 13 10:06 infduka
drwxr-xr-x 2 sftpduki sftponly 4096 Jan 13 10:06 infduki
-rwx------ 1 root root 1387 Jan 13 10:06 l2chroot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 09:41 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 10:24 lib64
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 13 09:59 usr
[root@duounfs01 t3public]#

My rssh.conf file contains:
[root@sftpserver t3public]# cat /etc/rssh.conf
# This is the default rssh config file

# set the log facility. "LOG_USER" and "user" are equivalent.
logfacility = LOG_USER

# Leave these all commented out to make the default action for rssh to lock
# users out completely...

#allowscp
allowsftp
#allowcvs
#allowrdist
#allowrsync

# set the default umask
umask = 022

# If you want to chroot users, use this to set the directory where the root of
# the chroot jail will be located.
#
# if you DO NOT want to chroot users, LEAVE THIS COMMENTED OUT.
# chrootpath = /usr/local/chroot

# You can quote anywhere, but quotes not required unless the path contains a
# space...
chrootpath = "/t3public/public_ftp"

##########################################
# EXAMPLES of configuring per-user options

#user=rudy:077:00010: # the path can simply be left out to not chroot
#user=rudy:077:00010 # the ending colon is optional

#user=rudy:011:00100: # cvs, with no chroot
#user=rudy:011:01000: # rdist, with no chroot
#user=rudy:011:10000: # rsync, with no chroot
#user="rudy:011:00001:/usr/local/chroot" # whole user string can be quoted
#user=rudy:01"1:00001:/usr/local/chroot" # or somewhere in the middle, freak!
#user=rudy:'011:00001:/usr/local/chroot' # single quotes too

# if your chroot_path contains spaces, it must be quoted...
# In the following examples, the chroot_path is "/usr/local/my chroot"
#user=rudy:011:00001:"/usr/local/my chroot" # scp with chroot
#user=rudy:011:00010:"/usr/local/my chroot" # sftp with chroot
#user=rudy:011:00011:"/usr/local/my chroot" # both with chroot

# Spaces before or after the '=' are fine, but spaces in chrootpath need
# quotes.
#user = "rudy:011:00001:/usr/local/my chroot"
#user = "rudy:011:00001:/usr/local/my chroot" # neither do comments at line end

#user=sftpduka:011:00010:"/t3public/public_ftp" # sftp with chroot
#user=sftpduki:011:00010:"/t3public/public_ftp" # sftp with chroot

#
[root@sftpserver t3public]#

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

>>> couldn't find /t3public/public_ftp in chroot jail

This indicates that the directory was not found as subdirectories of the chroot path. Probably the sftpduka user has /t3public/public_ftp as home directory.

Maybe the problem is that as you have:

chrootpath = "/t3public/public_ftp"

The system is trying to find:

"/t3public/public_ftp/t3public/public_ftp"

So, try one of these things:

Set the home dir for the user as / or
Change the chrootpath to another directory, and create subdirectories there, for example:

chrootpath = /usr/local/chroot
mkdir -p /usr/local/chroot/t3public/public_ftp

Or comment out the user=sftpduka directives.

[MikeL_4]

Thanks, re-checked your suggestions and everything was setup correctly...

I then found a message from google that suggested that as a last resolrt to just copy /lib/* to /chrootdir/lib

Did this and /lib64/* to /chrootdir/lib64 and everything started working correctly...

Must of been something that was missing from what I was instructed to copy from rssh documentation...