- I have created an stfp user alpha

- I want to limit his sftp access to a subfolder of another user /home/beta/subfolder

- the chroot setting is

Match User alpha
    ChrootDirectory /home/beta/subfolder
    AllowTCPForwarding no
    X11Forwarding no
    ForceCommand internal-sftp

but the ftp gives me error

Error:   Connection reset by peer
Error:   Could not connect to server

If I change ChrootDirectory to /home only it works all fine.


What could be the issue ? please help.

If I am remembering correctly, the chroot directory needs to be owned by root.

edit: the library article on sftp jails seems to confirm this.