[Jailkit-users] ERROR: [directory] is not owned by root:root

[Gregory Piñero]

Hi all,

Here's the issue I'm having.  Hopefully you can help.

I downloaded the latest version of jailkit from the website and
installed it here, following the instructions:
/home/chiefinnovator/utilitymill_alpha/secure_run_research/jailkit-2.4

My end goal is to create a jailed instance of the Python interpreter.

So next I created the jail folder:
/home/chiefinnovator/utilitymill_alpha/secure_run_research/jail_for_python

And next I tried to copy Python into it:
address@hidden:~/utilitymill_alpha/secure_run_research$
sudo jk_cp jail_for_python/ /usr/bin/python
ERROR: 
/home/chiefinnovator/utilitymill_alpha/secure_run_research/jail_for_python
is not owned by root:root!

So I changed that directorie's owner and group to root and ran it again:
address@hidden:~/utilitymill_alpha/secure_run_research$
sudo jk_cp jail_for_python/jail/ /usr/bin/python
ERROR: /home/chiefinnovator/utilitymill_alpha/secure_run_research is
not owned by root:root!

So I changed the owner of secure_run_research to root and ran it again:
address@hidden:~/utilitymill_alpha/secure_run_research$
sudo jk_cp jail_for_python/ /usr/bin/python
ERROR: /home/chiefinnovator/utilitymill_alpha is not owned by root:root!

So as you can see, it just keeps working it's way up the directory
tree, wanting everything to be owned by root.

What is going on?

Thanks,

Greg