ssh - connect to directory outside of /user/home - permission denied

[Yuri Pankov]

Turner Litigation Services wrote:
> How do you allow ssh to permit connections to a folder outside of the /home
> folder of the user loggin in to ssh?  For example, i want to sync two
> folders
> (using unison) on different machines and need to ssh to the remote folder ..
> 
> but the folder is a shared folder outside of my home folder
> (i.e. /user/data/pub).
> 
> ssh [username]@[servername] works to get me into the user folder and I can
> cd
> to the folder I need to access (and have proper perms there)
> 
> But, I need to connect to the folder directly to use unison (file/directory
> synchronization tool).
> 
> ssh [username]@[severname] /usr/data/pub/ gives permission denied errors.
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You are specifying a command to run once ssh connects, not the path to 
chdir to.

> I've heard the directory path needs to be relative to the home path but the
> following does not work either:
> 
> ssh [username]@[servername] ../../../usr/data/pub/  (where the default
> directory for ssh logins is /usr/home/[username]/.)
> 
> I've tried formatting variations of the above themes to no avail and suspect
> 
> there's a setting somewhere to allow what directories ssh connections can be
> 
> made to, or creating a link in [users] home directory to the public
> directory.  Your help would be appreciated.
> 

You could use something similar to:
ssh [username]@[servername] 'cd /usr/data/pub; unison .........'


HTH,
Yuri