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Author:  sami1255 [ Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:54 pm ]
Post subject:  How to chroot a user to a particular folder of another user
- 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

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


but the ftp gives me error

Code:
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.
Author:  bjl [ Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How to chroot a user to a particular folder of another u
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.
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