Centos 6 SFTP chroot Jail

User and Group setup

First you will want to establish the sftponly group

groupadd sftponly

Then create the user with the correct home directories and group

useradd -d /var/www/vhosts/bob -s /bin/false -G sftponly bob

Don’t forget at this point to also add password to these new accounts.

SSHd configuration […]