Re: [Jailkit-dev] Can jk_chrootsh be used manually ?

[Olivier Sessink]

On 07/11/2013 10:41 AM, Ashish Sharma wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I have jailkit perfectly setup on my server.
>
> I am trying to give web-access to the users. I have created a Terminal server 
> ( http://github.com/pocha/terminal-server) using pty.js 
> (https://github.com/chjj/pty.js). 
>
> The part of code that creates a bash terminal for a user looks like 
> ----------
> var term = pty.spawn('bash', [], {
>   name: 'xterm-color',
>   cols: 80,
>   rows: 30,
>   cwd: process.env.HOME,
>   env: process.env
> });
> ---------
>
> By using uid & gid option of the API, I am able to launch the bash terminal 
> as the user. But he is not really getting jailed. 
> ---------
> var term = pty.spawn('bash', [], {
>   name: 'xterm-color',
>   cols: 80,
>   rows: 30,
>   uid: <uid of user>,
>   gid: <gid of user>
> });
> ----------
>
> I am trying to 'login' a jailed user so that the bash terminal shows up with 
> he being jailed. I was thinking that using '/usr/sbin/jk_chrootsh' instead of 
> 'bash' could solve my problem, but it did not really work for me.

what was in the logs? jk_chrootsh usually gives useful log messages.

>
> I realized I do not really understand how jk_chrootsh works. Can somebody 
> help me with this ?

jk_chrootsh is a login shell replacement, perhaps jk_uchroot works
better for your situation.

Olivier


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