chroot directory ownership

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Currently, sshd requires the chroot directory to be owned by root.  This
makes it impossible to chroot users into their own home directory, which
would be convenient for sftp-only users.  Is there a particular reason
why, in safely_chroot() in session.c,

                if (st.st_uid != 0 || (st.st_mode & 022) != 0)
                        fatal("bad ownership or modes for chroot "
                            "directory %s\"%s\"", 
                            cp == NULL ? "" : "component ", component);

can't be changed to

                if ((st.st_uid != 0 && st.st_uid != uid) ||
                    (st.st_mode & 022) != 0)
                        fatal("bad ownership or modes for chroot "
                            "directory %s\"%s\"", 
                            cp == NULL ? "" : "component ", component);

?

DES
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