Thank You Everyone!! Seems the problem was I needed to uncomment "PasswordAuthentication yes". When creating a user with SSH ability. Keith On 2024-10-22 10:46, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote: > ChatGPT gave a more complete answer than I do below (the question was: > This person is using vhost, and thinks he wants to chroot to the > docroot of the vhost when the user logs in. What do you think of that?) > > (I never thought I'd be pointing people to an AI for answers! ;-) > > > On 10/22/24 10:42, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> One thing I don't understand, below. >> >> On 10/22/24 10:25, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I appreciate all the feedback.  There is more to the story. >>> >>> .... >>> >>> The 3 things I think I need to accomplish: >>> >>> 1) Add a user and configure it to use SSH. >>> 2) Configure each vhost to use PHP-FPM. >>> 3) Limit the User to the docroot of it's virtual host. >>> (ChrootDirectory) >>> >> I don't understand # 3.  Let me say what I think you said:  you have >> (some number of) virtual machines.  Or do you mean that thing that >> allows you to run more than one web address from the same IP address?  >> In either case, why do you need to chroot to docroot? You do realize >> that docroot must then have EVERYTHING the user needs - all programs, >> all devices, everything.  So you're going to need /dev, /bin, >> /usr/bin, and so forth or the user will be dead in the water with no >> commands - shoot, not even bash will be there to try to type commands! >> >> If you're doing the chroot already, and its failing, then that's >> probably because bash isn't there, nor is anything else you need... >> >>> I am using a clone of the LAMP server so I am going to remove it and >>> create another close and start by trying to create a use that has SSH >>> access and a home directory. >>> >> If you are using virtual machines, just clone it in the virtual >> machine - but then, I'm thinking you don't mean virtual machine, you >> mean that other thing :-) >>> Then I think I should work on limiting that user to the vhost that is >>> designated to work with. >>> >>> >> So, if you mean not virtual machine but that other thing, then you're >> either going to have to copy all the stuff I talk about above in to >> the docroot tree (which I still think will cause more problems than it >> will fix), or mount the stuff above inside the docroot, or figure out >> how to change permissions and ownership so that the user can only >> change the stuff in their docroot.  Perhaps group ownership can save >> the day here, assuming you want ALL files in ALL web servers to be >> owned by whoever is running Apache, then create 2 or more groups, >> change all group ownership to the NON-User group, then >> >> change group ownership of all files in your docroot to the group of >> the user (obviously you're going to have to change the user to have >> that group too), then change permissions to something like 770 for all >> directories everywhere (or 775, or whatever) and 660 for all files.  >> Done, supposedly ;-) >> >>> >>> Then finish up by installing configuring the vhost to use PHP-FPM. >>> >>> Any thought are much appreciated!! >>> >>> Keith >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss