From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008030315 Red Hat/3.0b4pre-0.beta3.4.el5 Minefield/3.0b4pre Description of problem: Customer is requesting, for security reasons, that we add chroot capability to our sshd server, more specifically for sftp. Upstream OpenSSH software version 4.9 recently incorporated this feature. See release notes and man pages: http://openssh.org/txt/release-4.9 http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config Can we backport this feature into our current version of the openssh-server package for RHEL? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use of current OpenSSH RHEL software Actual Results: No chroot environment built in configuration options. Expected Results: An openssh-server capable of built in chroot configuration options. Additional info:
Given the state of maintenance of RHEL-4 I am not sure this is appropriate feature for backport. It would also have to be backported to RHEL-5 first so we wouldn't regress feature-wise.
(In reply to comment #1) > Given the state of maintenance of RHEL-4 I am not sure this is appropriate > feature for backport. It would also have to be backported to RHEL-5 first so we > wouldn't regress feature-wise. Would you consider backporting it to RHEL5, Thomas? Thanks, Chris
Yes, it will be part of 5.4 if QA goes well. See bug 440420