2015-03-20 To chroot SFTP accounts, follow this tutorial: [0] Often unknown is that the chroot directory and all its parent directories must be owned by root and that the chroot directory must only be writable by root. To debug the setup, take a look into /var/log/auth.log. The man page chroot(2) is worth a read as well, not only but also because of this note: In particular, the superuser can escape from a "chroot jail" by doing: mkdir foo; chroot foo; cd .. [0] http://askubuntu.com/questions/134425/how-can-i-chroot- sftp-only-ssh-users-into-their-homes http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke