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How to use ChrootDirectory

first of all I don't know what is ChrootDirectory, I so an example it was working as you can see in example A, but when i chage setting it deosn't work as in example B

A:
User1:x:500:500::/var/www:/bin/bash
Set /etc/ssh/sshd_config to
ChrootDirectory %h
This way user1 can login to /var/www/ using sftp.

B
But when I change
User1:x:500:500::/var/www/html/public:/bin/bash
And ChrootDirectory /var/www/html/public

User can’t login I get following error

Accepted password for user1 from 10.1.3.76 port 53711 ssh2
pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user user1 by (uid=0)
fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory "/var/www/public"
pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user user1

turnbulld

What is the output of ls -l /var/www/public? It appears that ssh is complaining that the directory chosen isn't owned by user user1.

rawandnet

ASKER

i gave public folder full controll to all users chmod -R 777.

drwxrwxrwx 2 user1 root 4096 Apr 18 13:56 public

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rawandnet

ASKER

I managed to login the the folder using your instruction, but I can't upload file because it is 755 permission which is:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 18 17:38 chroot/

chroot location is /chroot

turnbulld

Probably you'll have to create a sub-directory with the necessary permissions. Based on how the code for the functionality is written, it seems you just can't use the new root folder itself.

rawandnet

ASKER

your advice solve the problem, thank you.