"Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?" -- winscp problem with scponlyc login shell -- solved

[Andrew McGlashan]

Hi,

My son has an scponlyc "shell" login on one of my servers.

He started to get this error:
"Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?"

He was trying to connect using WinSCP ....

The problem was that the chroot home directory wasn't owned by root, so the
login failed. I fixed this and made sure his group could write to the
directory, but it is now owned by root.

Kind Regards
AndrewM

Andrew McGlashan
Broadband Solutions now including VoIP

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[Andrew McGlashan]

Hi,

Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> The problem was that the chroot home directory wasn't owned by root,
> so the login failed. I fixed this and made sure his group could
> write to the directory, but it is now owned by root.

One little problem.... I had to remove the group write permissions.