Re: [Jailkit-users] rsync in jailkit jail

[Olivier Sessink]

Art Swri wrote:
> I have run up against another issue in trying to set up a jailkit chroot 
> jail in which a user can run rsync (only). The jail is on a 'central 
> server' host named CS (for example).
>
> I run this command as the user trying to rsync to the CS:
>   rsync some_local_file  address@hidden:.
> The attempt gets this error:
>   rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
>   rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(632) [sender=3.0.4]
>
> On host CS, the /var/log/auth.log shows (date/time has been removed to 
> shorten):
> CS sshd[6238]: Accepted publickey for CSUSER from 192.168.2.190 port 
> 50934 ssh2
> CS sshd[6238]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user CSUSER by 
> (uid=0)
> CS jk_chrootsh[6247]: now entering jail /usr/local/chroot_jail for user 
> CSUSER (1002)
> CS sshd[6238]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user CSUSER

I don't see any logging from within the jail, did you set up jk_socketd 
or syslog to enable logging in the jail? Very probably you can see the 
problem in the jk_lsh logs.

Olivier