On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:41:11PM -0700, Joseph Spenner wrote: > The sshd log has an entry: > Jul 9 21:31:12 happybox sshd[8741]: [ID 800047 local5.crit] fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory "/space/storage/jsmith" > > The permissions of /space/storage/jsmith seem ok: > > drwxr-xr-x 3 jsmith other 512 Jul 9 21:19 jsmith Check the permissions of EVERY directory leading up to it, as well. ls -ld / /space /space/storage /space/storage/jsmith