Centos – SFTP Error: open for write: permission denied

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I have created a user and a group only for SFTP and when I try to transfer a file with Filezilla in /var/www I have this error:

Open for write: permission denied

I have configured sshd_config like this :

#Subsystem Sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
Subsystem sftp internal-sftp

Group sftp_only Match
ChrootDirectory /var/www
ForceCommand internal-sftp
X11Forwarding No
AllowTcpForwarding No

/var/www and sub directories are chown root:root and chmod 755

SELinux is disabled.

Any idea ?

Best Answer

The permission of /var/www does not permit the chrooted-user to create files in it.
That is correct and by design.
You must create a folder inside of /var/www with the proper rights of the user.

/var/www can not be writeable for the user.

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sorry i can't comment, so i have to answer directly.

the permissions with the build-in chroot system is a little bit tricky, i use the same method to create sftp only users:

part of my sshd_config:

Match group developers
    ChrootDirectory /home/%u/userdata

where %u matches every username here

assuming the following path

/home/developername/datadirectory/upload

permissions:

developername root:root rwxr-xr-x
datadirectory root:root rwxr-xr-x
upload developername:developers rwx------

if a user logs the directroy listing of / shows "upload"

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If you are using Ubuntu the Apache user will be www-data, but if you are using CentOS the webserver user will be Apache, so can you grep and see whether Apache user exist or not:

grep apache /etc/passwd

If the apache user exist you can use :

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html

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