This document describes how to set up a chrooted SSH/SFTP environment on Fedora 7. The chrooted users will be jailed in a specific directory where they can't break out. They will be able to access their jail via SSH and SFTP. Do feel using a chroot environment helps in protecting your Linux box? It can protect your system by having chrooted users unable to effect anything thing else expect for their own environment. Have you used chroot for security, if so do you use it every time you add a new user?

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