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Match Group sftpuser
ChrootDirectory /home/%u
ForceCommand internal-sftp
AllowTcpForwarding no
X11Forwarding no
but obviously the home directory's require to be owned by root (Which I am unsure of why?) I would quite like the users to connect the server and be presented with a directory they can write to. I thought about putting something in their .profile or .bashrc but as they are all using /bin/false this isn't going to be possible.
Why do they have to be owned by root? An sftp thing?
If the users each belong to their own group, or you're willing to add a new group for each user, perhaps you could chgrp the home directories to those groups and give group write permission on them.
You have to create the full path of the user's home directory *inside* the chroot, and then sftp will cd there when the user logs in. I'm not sure if you'll have to create an /etc/passwd inside the chroot for this to work, or if it works with the regular passwd file.
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