Ubuntu SFTP jails setup review
After setting up a SFTP only chroot
jail I had to log with Filezilla and got error:
Error: Server unexpectedly closed network connection
Error: Unable to connect to server
The set up was working previously so I had no idea what was going on. In those cases, just check your logs:
nano /var/log/auth.log
In my case, I found this pesky line:
fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory "/srv/www/a-domain.com/public_html"
To check what chroot
a user has:
nano /etc/passwd # we have a list of all users and its home directory.
The structure has to be so that the user's chroot
has to be owned by root and not writable by the group.