Carl Johnson on 10 May 2012 09:05:29 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] chrooting SFTP?


Isn't this something SELinux could handle?





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Jon Mosco <jonny.mosco@gmail.com> wrote:

>You might want to look into mounting the filesystem with ACL(access
>control
>list) support.
>
>http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/ch-acls.html
>
>
>
>On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Michael Leone
><turgon@mike-leone.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Conor Schaefer
>> <conor.schaefer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Use a sticky bit on to prevent deletion by anyone other than owner.
>>
>> I want the exact opposite. The owner is the user, I want them not to
>> be able to delete, but aa different account (in the same group as the
>> user) to be able to delete.
>>
>> > Make a
>> > group and add them to it for reading and writing. Populate their
>home dir
>> > with symlinks elsewhere so you can easily administrate those files,
>but
>> keep
>> > doing so transparent to them.
>>
>> Can't. The only things that can be in the home folders are the files
>> that are uploaded. All contents of the directory are copied and fed
>> into a system that I don't manage. So I can't have it copy everything
>> except links, etc.
>>
>> >
>> > Use a dirmask to ensure your permissions stay constant over time.
>> >
>> > (Writing from phone, otherwise more detail and links.)
>> >
>> > On May 10, 2012 11:25 AM, "Michael Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com>
>wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'll admit to being slow today (as if today was different from any
>> >> other day ...). Anyways, we run a SSH server here, so that vendors
>can
>> >> send us invoices via SFTP. (at least it's encrypted, and better
>than
>> >> FTP)
>> >>
>> >> So right now they SFTP us data.
>> >>
>> >> So what would I need to do to secure this a bit more? So they they
>> >> couldn't move up the tree and over to other folders, for example?
>> >> Should I chroot it, or would that be very difficult to implement
>after
>> >> the fact, as it were?
>> >>
>> >> And as an aside, is there a way to set the security on their home
>> >> directories so that they can't delete files, only add them. What
>we do
>> >> is run a script (as a user who is a member of the same group as
>the
>> >> user home directory) and clear the directory every night, after
>> >> copying out the file. I would want that account to be able to
>delete
>> >> the files in there, but not the actual user account.
>> >>
>> >> I know how I would do that in Windows, but not in Linux.
>> >>
>> >> This would be RHEL 5.7, BTW.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
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