Re: [Jailkit-users] issue with jk_jailuser on Mandriva 2006

[Olivier Sessink]

Steve Wegner wrote:
>  Olivier,
> I don't quite know what to make of the strace output. It is below in its
> entirety, sorry for length. Also if I change shell to bash in real
> /etc/passwd sftp works great, but I can of course also get a shell and
> navigate around the server, which is not desired.

can you try the setup as described under "Advanced debugging a user 
account in a jail" ? replace ssh with your sftp command. Search for the 
sshd that has [priv] in the ps listing, and strace that process and its 
children.

That will hopefully give the reason why sftp-server is not starting.

regards,
        Olivier