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How To Set Up A Secure Chrooted Jail With RSSH

May 31, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

In this guide I will show you how to install and configure Restricted SSH (rssh) using the default port 22, create a chrooted jail for your users and how to properly secure it all afterwards.

This method is tried and tested as I originally wrote this for my own benefit when building servers at work.

There are 5 steps:

  1. Installing rssh
  2. Configuring rssh
  3. Building the chrooted jail
  4. Locking it all down
  5. Adding users with rssh over SCP and/or SFTP access to the jail.

Confirmed compatable with default installations of CentOS 5.2 and Redhat 5.2

During this guide the CentOS/Redhat default webroot of /var/www/html will be used.

Let’s get started!

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Installing Retrospect Client On Linux Servers

March 8, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

Retrospect is a popular backup solution used by many large organizations, similar in functionality to Semantec Backup Exec.
The main application is designed for Windows Server operating systems and includes clients for Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris and Netware.

These instructions are written for CentOS 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (not tested on Fedora)

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