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Old 10-05-2012
Is the /assure0/test/ directory the user's home directory? If so, have you tried using %h (what I used in my configurations) instead of %u? Also, have you tried omitting that directive all together and just setting the chroot path to /assure0/test/?
# 9  
Old 10-05-2012
Yeah, tried them and no change in error in both these cases.
# 10  
Old 10-05-2012
Have you looked at the logs (/var/log/secure) on the server you're attempting to connect to?
# 11  
Old 10-06-2012
Thanks much. This log helped me understand the issue:

fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory

Have modified the permissions accordingly and it fixed the issue

Lessons learnt:

a. ChrootDirectory mentioned in /etc/ssh/sshd_config file should be owned by root and not the sftp only user in question

b. From ChrootDirectory, we need to create a directory for sftp user with permissions set as chown test:test <dir name>. In my case, it was test:sftpusers; so, it was failing earlier

c. The permissions on sftpuser directory should be 755
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