How to set up chroot SFTP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?

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Issue

  • How to set up chroot sftp on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?
  • How to setup sftp so that a specially-created ftp user can't get out of its home directory ?
  • How to setup sftp such that user can only access their home directory and its subdirectories ?
  • How to chroot-jail ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and above
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • openssh-server-4.3p2-30.el5 or later

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