Problem

Getting below error after connecting to SFTP server:

# sftp sftp_user1@dbappweb.com 
sftp_user1@dbappweb.com's password: 
Connected to dbappweb.com. 
sftp> ls
remote readdir("/incoming"): Permission denied

 

Reason

I was getting the “Permission denied” error because SELinux was enabled on the SFTP servers and it was enforcing. The status of SELinux can be checked using getenfore command:

# getenforce
Enforcing

 

Solution

I have set up an SFTP server and created some SFTP users to access their home directories only using chroot. After configuring the setup below commands need to be run to resolve the above error.

# setsebool -P ssh_chroot_rw_homedirs on
# restorecon -R /home/sftp/sftp_user1

Where /home/sftp/sftp_user1 is the home directory of the SFTP user sftp_user1.

After executing the above command for SFTP user sftp_user1, the user is able to access files and folders under the home directory.

# sftp sftp_user1@dbappweb.com 
sftp_user1@dbappweb.com's password: 
Connected to dbappweb.com. 
sftp> ls
incoming

 

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Last Updated: May 18, 2020