Re: [Jailkit-users] SuSE problem

[Olivier Sessink]

Steve Follmer wrote:
> It appears you have fixed it!
>
> Can the dependency on /dev/null be detected automatically by jailkit or
> is it OS dependent and must also be discovered by hand?

it is application dependent, That's why it is useful to store such 
information in jk_init.ini

> What are the implications? Is this SuSE (in my case openSUSE 10.2)
> specific? It seems SuSE requires jk_init.ini's sftp section to be
> changed to look like this:
>
> [sftp]
> comment = ssh secure ftp
> executables = /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
> includesections = netbasics, uidbasics
> devices = /dev/urandom, /dev/null

on my system (which has the jailkit development version) /dev/null is 
already in this section. Did you have to add it yourself?

> And of course SuSE uses the alternative init.d script you provide in
> extra/ in the 2.3 jailkit distribution.
>
> jk_init.ini should be examined to see if other areas need changes.
>
> I can't say if this issue is SuSE specific or more an artifact of the
> ssh package (or SuSE packaging of ssh).
>
> According to http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/ there is no SuSE
> package for jailkit. Such package could incorporate the above changes.
> SuSE is after all the 2nd or 3rd most popular linux according to
> distrowatch. However, I've never built a package.

I don't have suse (I use Ubuntu and Debian), so I can't create one either.

regards,
        Olivier