Subject: Re: [luau] vsftpd config help

[Vince Hoang]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:14:39PM -0800, Ben Beeson wrote:
> 	Mahalos for your suggestions.   I checked all that -- no firewall here
> (I'll switch the internal one back on after I get this working and tweak
> the firewall to allow internal connections to ftp..), even lokkit is
> open.  The vsftpd just acts weird.  I can log in as myself and it
> correctly drops me into my home directory and  all is well. I can log in
> anonymously, but here is the funny part .. all I can see is the /pub
> listing. Here is what the session looks like:

To reiterate the first half of Tom's message, vsftpd is enforcing
the chroot by design.

    man chroot
    info coreutils chroot
    ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-1.2.1/SECURITY/DESIGN

You can disable the chroot, but why would you want to?

-Vince