Comments on: How to Setup a jailed shell with jailkit on Ubuntu / Linux

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:10:11 +0000

Thanks a million. I was laughing too hard at the “robber” user to finish my work on time. lol Thanks for the endorphin boost.

By: Dachande

Dachande — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:28:00 +0000

I’ve created a small script I wanna share with you. This script will create new user accounts with seperate scp/sftp only jails for each user.

This script has been tested with Ubuntu 12.04 and uses jailkit 2.17.
I hope you’ll like it.

You can find the script @ pastebin: http://pastebin.com/8qEx4qPV

By: Hugh Campbell

Hugh Campbell — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:22:00 +0000

The steps above are to make and then chown /opt/jail, and then initing the jail in /jail . Is that right?

Following through to the jailing the user step, the attempt to jk_jailuser to /opt/jail fails, “missing etc/passwd” – jailing to /jail works, so I’m guessing that was what you meant?

By: matt

matt — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:45:48 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial.
I made it working, but not all what I wanted. For example, I cannot login with jailed user using SFTP. I have no idea what is the problem. WinSCP keeps saying: “Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?”. What is the problem?

By: Baldemar

Baldemar — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:30:44 +0000

Thanks for this little but very useful tutorial. I had weeks trying to do this but didn’t know about Jailkit. The only thing that remains to be solved – for me – is how to change the “I have no name” issue.