The sftp login fails with the error "fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory" in the secure log of the ssh server side

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The sftp login fails with the following error message:
Write failed: Broken pipe
Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer
  • The ssh server outputs the following error in /var/log/secure.
sshd[XXXX]: fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory
  • /etc/ssh/sshd_config has ChrootDirectory configuration.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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