Knute Johnson wrote: >> I don't know why the file appears totally invisible to the process >> (chroot tricks?). > > Thanks very much for your reply. One of the previous posts was from > me so there doesn't appear to be much interest in this. Is this > something that should be filed as a bug? I think it's a bug. Misleading logs related to security events are not nice. Just filed as bug 193184 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193184 And yes, the problem is caused by a chroot() call to an empty directory. [pid 9996] chroot("/var/empty/sshd") = 0 Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it