On 2026-01-17, Sylvain Saboua <[email protected]> wrote: > I get the following in /var/log/authlog on my server: > Jan 17 02:17:16 lap sshd-session[82216]: Accepted none for anonymous > from 10.0.0.21 port 57399 ssh2 > Jan 17 02:17:16 lap sshd-session[75831]: fatal: bad ownership or modes > for chroot directory "/home/git" > > Yet : > > $ ls -ld /home/git > drwxr-x--- 6 _gotd _gotd 512 Jan 16 23:41 /home/git/
the ChrootDirectory path must be owned by root, sshd will then change to $ChrootDirectory/$homedir. see the first parsgraph of sshd_config(5)'s description of ChrootDirectory.
