Changing sftp user's home directory

Tue Aug 17 13:58:17 MST 2010

On 08/17/2010 12:58 PM, keith smith wrote:
> I'm running centOS 5 something. I configure SFTP and removed FTP.  Now I
> need to add a user, lets say billybob.  By default his home directory
> would be /hone/billybob.  I need to remove that and give him access to
> only one directory within the docroot of a vhost.  Say the directory
> /home/someVhost/public_html/documents/

Unfortunately the version of openssh included in Centos 5 doesn't have
the functionality you need (specifically ChrootDirectory and friends).
One way to solve this by installing a newer copy of openssh and
disabling the old.

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