Directory permissions in chroot SFTP

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Michael Masterson wrote:

> > Right, this is on purpose. We ban this because allowing a user write
> > access to a chroot target is dangerously similar to equivalence with
> > allowing write access to the root of a filesystem.
> 
> Could you tell me what the *real* dangers of allowing SFTP only users to write
> to their directories?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522141

-d