chown

bad ownership or modes for chroot directory component

From the man page: ChrootDirectory Specifies the pathname of a directory to chroot(2) to after authentication. All components of the pathname must be root-owned directories that are not writable by any other user or group. After the chroot, sshd(8) changes the working directory to the user’s home directory. My guess is one or more of … Read more

changing the owner of folder in linux

Use chown to change ownership and chmod to change rights. use the -R option to apply the rights for all files inside of a directory too. Note that both these commands just work for directories too. The -R option makes them also change the permissions for all files and directories inside of the directory. For example will change ownership (both user and group) … Read more