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I'd like to connect as user to a remote host through SFTP.
Moreover, I'd like to land into a specific directory (say /home/user/dir). I've created user with default working directory as /home/user/dirand set a /home/user/.ssh/authorized_key file to host my public key.
However, upon connexion using sftp -P 7000 user@host.com and after typing user's password, I get the following error immediatly: Connection to host.com closed by remote host. Connection closed.
Any idea about where it might come from (or how to debug that kind of issue)?
UPDATE
I was finally to connect as user because authorized_key didn't have the proper rights. However, I got the exact same error message while trying to land in /home/user/dir with another user (say user2) which was granted group access to /home/user/dir. But as it turn out in this response, SFTP chroot jail does not allow that by design. I'll try to use symbolic links between /home/user/dir and /home/user2/dir to solve this issue.
Crolle
Posted 2018-11-09T13:08:56.367
Reputation: 131
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-vvv:sftp -P 7000 user@host.com -vvvand show output – Tomasz Jakub Rup – 2018-11-09T14:24:55.637I get the exact same output :
Connection to host.com closed by remote host. Connection closed.– Crolle – 2018-11-09T14:44:35.993Did you set /home/user/dir as your user's $HOME ? or what else did you do to "land into a specific directory" ? Did logging in work before you changed that directory? – hyph – 2018-11-09T14:52:17.357
Sorry, my fault:
sftp -P 7000 -vvv user@host.com– Tomasz Jakub Rup – 2018-11-09T14:59:26.307@hyph I defined
– Crolle – 2018-11-09T15:42:36.483userdefault directory usingusermod -m -d /home/user/dir user@Tomasz Jakub Rup The log is quite extensive : https://pastebin.com/0dRZBPUSPlease show Your
.bashrcfile (fromhost.com) – Tomasz Jakub Rup – 2018-11-09T19:31:04.570so then you put your dotfiles and folders in /home/user/dir not in /home/user and it should work. – hyph – 2018-11-12T17:01:14.950