[Wlug] proftpd off the map?

[Brian J. Conway]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, John Stoffel wrote:

>
> Aaron> On a slight tangent: Do you have a specific need for ftp? I'd
> Aaron> suggest looking into using sftp instead (the s stands for
> Aaron> secure). It's available as part of openssh.
>
> The problem with sftp is that it doesn't offer chroot() style jails
> for ftp users and accounts.  This can be worked around using the
> scponly hack which is out on the net.
>
> Now maybe I'm a little out of date, I'd love to know that more recent
> versions of OpenSSH support chroot'd sftp jails.

Actually, there is recent development on that front:

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080220110039

I don't believe it's part of any release of OpenSSH yet, but presumably 
soon.

Brian J. Conway