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mich04

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From: Illinois - United States

Registered: 2011-10-25

Posts: 390

chroot, sshfs permission denied. (solved)

Hey guys and girls,
I am having a slight issue with setting this up. Just need some guidance from my favorite community. I have ssh set up to access my server I am not trying to set up sshfs to share files. Here is what is happening.

[snappy@office Downloads]$ sftp -oPORT=1000 guesswho@192.168.1.56                     
guesswho@@192.168.1.56's password: 
Permission denied, please try again.
guesswho@@192.168.1.56's password: 

I can login with my administrator account. Here is my ssh_config

Port 1000
UsePAM yes
PermitRootLogin no
AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
PrintMotd no # pam does that
UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox          # Default for new installations.

Subsystem       sftp    internal-sftp

Match Group sftponly
        ChrootDirectory %h
        ForceCommand internal-sftp
        AllowTcpForwarding no
        X11Forwarding no

Here is how my user is setup

guesswho:x:1001:1003::/var/www/users/guesswho/:/bin/false

Here is how my folder permissions are

/var/www/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov  7 16:43 users

/var/www/users/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov  7 16:45 guesswho

/var/www/users/guesswho
drwxr-xr-x 2 guest root 4096 Nov  7 16:45 share

For the share directory I did try to make the group sftponly and ended with the same result. Now that I have typed this out I am wondering if it has to do with the public key. I will investigate that.

Last edited by mich04 (2015-11-08 18:21:50)

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paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 611

Re: chroot, sshfs permission denied. (solved)

guesswho:x:1001:1003::/var/www/users/guesswho/:/bin/false

why are you using /bin/false ?

mich04

Member

From: Illinois - United States

Registered: 2011-10-25

Posts: 390

Re: chroot, sshfs permission denied. (solved)

I was just trying to prevent physical login to the machine with that user. I will adjust that setting later when I get back. I was reading the information at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sshfs, but I used that in conjunction with a YouTube video someone posted. I resorted to trying the videos after I was unsuccessful with the wiki. It just seems that I am missing something simple.

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I love computers, networking and Arch Linux. Sometimes I might ask a stupid question, but please have grace with me like I would with you.

mich04

Member

From: Illinois - United States

Registered: 2011-10-25

Posts: 390

Re: chroot, sshfs permission denied. (solved)

Well I feel like an idiot. I changed the login shell back to /bin/bash and now it works. I did try for days without it set like that. I think it must have been a simple file permission during that period of time.

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I love computers, networking and Arch Linux. Sometimes I might ask a stupid question, but please have grace with me like I would with you.