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Is there any way to let the user access folders linked via symbolic link? My sftp users get "Couldn't canonicalize: No such file or directory" error when they try to cd into those.

Passiday
– Passiday

2014-09-23 15:46:36 +00:00
Commented Sep 23, 2014 at 15:46
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@Passiday Make sure that the symbolic links don't go outside the chroot: they should be relative, and not using .. too many times (or absolute, but then they need to start from the root of the chroot, so they'll be invalid outside the chroot).

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

2014-09-23 15:48:09 +00:00
Commented Sep 23, 2014 at 15:48
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I see from here that if I want users to venture outside the jail, then I must mount that outside folder.

Passiday
– Passiday

2014-09-23 17:05:22 +00:00
Commented Sep 23, 2014 at 17:05

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