Comments on: How to Configure Chroot SFTP Server in Linux

By: James Jithin

James Jithin — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:52:01 +0000

Very well explained and written. This is very helpful.

By: andrey

andrey — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:07:02 +0000

This solve problem with permission denide on enabled selinux:
setsebool -P ssh_chroot_full_access on

By: Timal Mangra

Timal Mangra — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 05:07:39 +0000

In reply to boris b. What does your personal preference of sftp over ftp have to do with the instructions provided above?

By: Timal Mangra

Timal Mangra — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 05:01:53 +0000

These instructions WILL NOT work for Ubuntu Linux and you will effectively lock yourself (admin/root) out if working remotely.

By: Benjamin Weiss

Benjamin Weiss — Thu, 21 May 2015 14:45:15 +0000

Okay, when I put SELinux in Permissive mode, it works. I’m running CentOS 6, and I tried your setsebool -P ssh_chroot_rw_homedirs on but it didn’t work.

Sorry for the multiple posts

By: Benjamin Weiss

Benjamin Weiss — Thu, 21 May 2015 14:37:17 +0000

I’ve gone through this step by step, but when I try to log in using WinSCP, I get “Error listing directory ‘/upload’ Permission denied.
Error code: 3
Error message from server: Permission denied
Request code: 11

I can go into the folder, but I can’t list anything, and when I try to upload a file I get Permission denied.
Error code: 3
Error message from server: Permission denied
Request code: 3

By: Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:51:55 +0000

In reply to fred gannett. Hi Fred , I have used . DOT after jack in chown command because i want to make this user both File Owner and Group Owner of upload folder. I have choose upload folder because i want jack user to upload its files and directory on upload directory only.

By: fred gannett

fred gannett — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:17:14 +0000

This line needs some improvement

[root@localhost jack]# chown jack. /home/jack upload/

1) All the commands above have absolute directory paths. This command make assumption that it’s in the directory /home.
2) There is a . DOT after jack ? Either a typo or means current directory. See 1.
3) Why upload/ is this just upload or /home/jack/upload ?

[root@localhost jack]# cd /home/jack ; chown jack $PWD /home/jack/upload

By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:36:43 +0000

In reply to hpcolo. I usually see this error when I don't have 'root' set as the owner & group and 755 for permissions of the user's directory ('Jack' in the author's example).

By: Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:51:16 +0000

In reply to hpcolo. Hi , These steps are tested on CentOS 6.X and RHEL 6.X , i am not sure whether these steps will work on Ubuntu Linux.