SFTP Noob - Can anyone help?

Hi All,

Im trying to setup a new user on a RHEL 6 box for purely sftp access.

At the moment I have full access via the root account and can sftp with applciations like winscp fine.

these are the steps I followed to create a new user for sftp on hostname:linuxserver1

1) groupadd sftpusers

2) added the following to /etc/sshd_config

#Match Group sftpusergroup

#ChrootDirectory %h

#ForceCommand internal-sftp

3) Restarted sshd - /etc/init.d/sshd restart

4) useradd -s /bin/false -G sftpusers testaccount1

5)passwd testaccount1 (Set password)

6)chown root ~testaccount1

7)chmod 750 ~testaccount1

When I try and SFTP to this box from another Linux server

with

testaccount1@linuxserver1

it then asks for password

I enter the password

and then it says connection closed straight away

also when I try with WINSCP with the credentials it comes up with

Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?

Any ideas?

Am I missing some commands?

any help will be appreciated

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