[Jailkit-users] Login failure

[Dimitri Yioulos]

Hello to all.

I'm brand new to Jailkit.  I've installed the latest version from source on a 
CentOS 3.8 box.  I've followed the instruction carefully for jailing a user 
in a particular directory.  I can start the sftp process by entering "sftp 
address@hidden, but immediately get a "Connection closed" message.  
The output of the syslog on the sftp server is:

Nov  9 17:55:49 hingham jk_socketd[22012]: version 2.1, listening on 
socket /var/log/jailkit with rates [1024:10240]/2.000000
Nov  9 17:55:49 hingham jk_socketd[22012]: version 2.1, listening on 
socket /home/sftproot/dev/log with rates [512:2048]/10.000000
Nov  9 17:56:06 hingham sshd(pam_unix)[22018]: session opened for user 
ftpaccount by (uid=0)
Nov  9 17:56:06 hingham jk_chrootsh[22019]: now entering jail /home/sftproot 
for user ftpaccount (504)
Nov  9 17:56:06 hingham jk_chrootsh[22019]: abort, failed to get user 
information in the jail for user ID 504: Permission denied, 
check /home/sftproot/etc/passwd
Nov  9 17:56:06 hingham sshd(pam_unix)[22018]: session closed for user 
ftpaccount

I've checked /home/sftproot/etc/passwd, and it looks as it should:

ftpaccount:x:504:504::/home/ftpaccount:/usr/sbin/jk_lsh

Where am I going wrong here?

Thanks for your help.

Diggy

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