SSH / chroot / user jail - vaporware?

another month

Just a frustrated reminder.

Another month has past.

Sigh.

How time flies, when you're having fun.
 
Is the jail ready to be released as a beta version of DA for people who want to test it?

Thanks,
Matt
 
DirectAdmin Sales said:
Straight poop:

We've been quiet about it, but I will say that programming is complete for jailing at all levels. It's a major system change so it's something we refuse to rush into.

We've also been quite busy, especially with the FreeBSD development and now Fedora / Enterprise. That's on top of the regular support tasks, sales tasks, etc. See:

http://www.directadmin.com/versions.php

:D

It's coming!

Mark

Okay guys. It has been almost 5 months (the above originally posted on 02-14-2004 03:11 PM) since Mark posted the above. I am getting clients who WANT to move to DA but NEED SSH access. Can we PLEASE get a update on the progress of this important feature?? PLEASE???
 
Well we don't give SSH access. Neither with jail we will, so it isn't a problem. Customers can use the File Manager to do most of the things they "want" to do in SSH (chmod, chown) so it isn't a problem.

I suggest not giving customers SSH access...not a good idea.
 
The chroot isn't just for SSH.

It improves the security of many other things (PHP, CGI, etc).

Matt :)
 
Mark is out for the week so John is busy with support email.

Post support@ an email if you want to bring this to John's attention. :)

Phi1.
 
With sugar on top? and a cherry?

Jailed CGI/SSH is really the only missing feature I'd consider "important enough to ask for".

While we're at it, phpsuexec would be nice _as an option_ however there may already be instructions on this somewhere I only recently got the idea to check into this, I'll be searching after I post :D
 
It's a how-to in the forum already I think :)

A response from DA would be great on chrooting tho please :)

Matt
 
I need this feature to allow my clients to have Jailed SSH to their game servers. AS allot of other server companies offer it would give users more of an incentive to join the company.
 
Hi everyone,

We *will* be releasing jailing with our new reseller system. We have quite a few large companies waiting for the jailing feature, and without that reseller system we would be overwhelmed by the amount of new licenses generated.

Resellers will receive DirectAdmin licenses at heavy discounts and in return are responsible for offering technical support on them. All customers, both internal and external, would purchase from resellers. We would still provide the option to purchase directly from us, but the cost would be higher.

We hope to have the reseller system functional within a month, and we already have a list of people qualified to be resellers.

I know you guys have been waiting for a while, and we normally like shooting out features as fast as possible. But, we must balance that demand with being able to offer general support at the same time.

On the bright side, watch the announcements forum, as the beta testing will begin in less than 2 weeks (yes, you can hold us to that!). :D

Mark
 
Actually Mark - with the new expansion of DA etc, will you be hiring another developer?

As I understand it, there's only John who actually codes DA. If he suddenly became involved in a car accident or for some reason was unable to work on DA, we'd all be screwed. For John's sake alone, I hope nothing like that happens... but it kinda makes you think.

Is there any kind of backup plan in place?

Matt :)
 
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