chroot SSH login on MacOS 10.4
While I was looking for a chroot'ed SSH setup on MacOS X, I've came a cross a few postings but most of them were basically "yeah, it's hard, and you have to recompile, bla..." or were dealing with sftp/scp
- not what I wanted. I really want users to get an interactive shell, but not snoop around on the real filesystem. Here's a short howto:
$ sudo su - $ port install jailkit $ mkdir -p /mnt/chroot/usr/bin /mnt/chroot/usr/lib/system /mnt/chroot/etc \ /mnt/chroot/home /mnt/chroot/dev/fd /mnt/chroot/home/dummy $ chown -R root:wheel /mnt/chroot $ ln /bin/bash /mnt/chroot/bin/bash $ ln /usr/bin/telnet /mnt/chroot/usr/bin/telnet $ cp -R /usr/lib/libncurses*dylib /mnt/chroot/usr/lib $ cp /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /mnt/chroot/usr/lib $ cp /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib /mnt/chroot/usr/lib/systemNote: there's no ldd in MacOS X, but we can use otool to list dynamic (library) dependencies:
$ otool -L /bin/bash /bin/bash: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0)Be aware that these dependencies may have dependencies on its own, you can do something like this to grab all of them - although it's not entirely recursive.
We're not quite ready yet:
- create a user ("dummy") via
NetInfo Manager.app
, set a password. - set her
home
to/mnt/chroot/./home/dummy
- set her
shell
to/opt/local/sbin/jk_chrootsh
- create an
/etc/passwd
inside the jail
$ id -u dummy 505 $ echo "dummy:x:505:505::/home/dummy:/bin/bash" > /mnt/chroot/etc/passwd $ chown -R dummy:dummy /mnt/chroot/home/dummyAnd for the sake of completenes, we're even creating a few devicefiles:
$ cp -R /dev/fd/[012] /mnt/chroot/dev/fd $ cp -R /dev/std* /dev/null /dev/zero /dev/tty /dev/*random /mnt/chroot/devNow everything should be in its place.
jk_chrootsh
is *very* picky about ownership/permissions (rightfully so!) and when something goes wrong, it logs to auth.log
, e.g.:
abort, home directory /dummy differs from jail home directory /mnt/chroot/./dummy for user dummy (505), check /etc/passwd and /mnt/chroot/etc/passwdor
ERROR: failed to execute shell /bin/bash for user dummy (505), check the permissions and libraries of /mnt/chroot//bin/bashNB: Tiger's OpenSSH_5.1p1 comes with an option called ChrootDirectory for quite a while now. And after struggling with the procedure above (sigh...), this option looks quite comfortable:
Match user dummy ChrootDirectory /mnt/chrootThis worked for me after two small fixes:
$ chown root:wheel / $ chmod 0755 /Btw, for a few weeks now SunSSH does support this option too in OpenSolaris. Nice :)