[scponly] Filezilla: "Fatal: unable to initialise SFTP: could not connect"

[Hideyuki KURASHINA]

>>> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:42:46 -0500, Frappy John <frappyjohn at gmail.com> said:

> A Google search tells me that one reason for the "Operation not permitted"
> error is that chroot is not being run by the superuser. Do you think that is
> the problem?

Yes.  If you do want user processes chroot'ed, root privilege is required.

> If so, It looks like chroot is being run by the scponly
> process. How would I go about changing the owner of the scponly process to
> root?

Please make sure your "scponlyc" (the chroot'ed binary of scponly) has
a set-uid bit to root.  It should be already cared in normal installation,
though.

-- rushani