I was tweaking the proftpd configuration when I discovered that it's
impossible for proftpd to chroot to the user's home directory.

This is a highly recommended setting so that one can limit ftp users to
their home directory (i.e. their web root directory) with no access outside.

This is done via the "DefaultRoot ~" proftpd directive.

However I cannot make it work not even by copying a working proftpd setup.
It seems that it's not possible to chroot if not being root.

I tried being admin and being root on the virtual server. It won't work
being admin, it works being root. It also works being admin with a suid
chroot. However, on proftpd it won't work even if I set proftpd ug+s.....

Any help is greatly appreciated

Dave

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