Directory permissions in chroot SFTP

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> said:
> 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

I guess I'm missing something - how does an SFTP-only user run
something?

Is there another way to restrict SFTP to a user's home directory?
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.