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Re: User env not set on chrootshell



--- Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> wrote:

> EJS wrote:
>
http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.38/chrootshell.c;
> > however when I try to telnet into the jail using
> my
> > jailed user. The chrootshell throws an error:
> >  
> > chrootshell: USER not set?!; died on line 131,
> errno 0
> > 
> > It looks like the User environment variable is not
> > getting set upon login. Any ideas how to
> troubleshoot
> > this?
> 
> Hmm.  (I suppose you could check the sshd source
> code
> to see if it sets USER.)
> 
> http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mansec?1+login
> says that USER isn't in the initial environment.
> Maybe chrootshell should set it using
> getpwuid(getuid())

getpwuid(getuid()) did the trick! Thanks Dan.




		
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