openssh sftp fails to start a session - oops

[Phillip Wu]

Sorry about the original query - it was as Tim says the /home/myuser directory was secured incorrectly and had permissions:
drwx------

As soon as I changed the permissions all was OK.

Thanks to Tim.................

-----Original Message-----
From: openssh-unix-dev-bounces+phillip.wu=lpma.nsw.gov.au at mindrot.org [mailto:openssh-unix-dev-bounces+phillip.wu=lpma.nsw.gov.au at mindrot.org] On Behalf Of Tim Rice
Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2010 2:57 PM
To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
Subject: Re: openssh sftp fails to start a session

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Phillip Wu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am having trouble running sftp from the openssh package openssh-5.5p1. There seems to
> be an authentication problem.
> 
> This is what happens:
> $ sftp -o "Port 2022" testu at localhost
> testu at localhost's password:
> Connection closed
> 
> QUESTION:
> Can someone spot the problem please? How do I fix this?
> 
[snip]
> subsystem request for sftp
> debug1: subsystem: cannot stat /home/myuser/openssh/libexec/sftp-server: Permission denied

looks like a permissions problem.
Show us the output of
ls -ld / /home /home/myuser /home/myuser/openssh /home/myuser/openssh/libexec
ls -ld /home/myuser/openssh/libexec/sftp-server


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tim at multitalents.net


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