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FreeBSD SCP Chroot

2016-06-29

Quick one here, if you want to create an SCP only user on FreeBSD just do the following

pw user add USERNAME -d /USERNAME
mkdir /path/to/chroot/folder
chown root:wheel /path/to/chroot/folder
mkdir /path/to/chroot/folder/USERNAME
chown USERNAME:USERNAME /path/to/chroot/folder/USERNAME

Now add the following at the end of your sshd_config

Match User USERNAME
    ChrootDirectory /path/to/chroot/folder
    X11Forwarding no
    AllowTcpForwarding no
    ForceCommand       internal-sftp

Now run service sshd reload And you’ll be good to go. When the user logs in they will notice the path as /USERNAME. If you don’t want that you can set the home direct ory of the user to / but in that case the user would only have read only access to their home folder which might not be what you want.

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