The proftpd docs say that the daemon does a chroot operation after login to restrict the user to a particular directory. The web site is at www.proftpd.net. I am not sure how this compares to running a program under the chroot command.
Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Pollywog wrote: > Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:20:15 -0000 (UTC) > From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords' > > On 26-Mar-2000 19:16:30 Ernest Johanson wrote: > > You can tell proftpd to allow logins without a valid shell. It can also > > set a default root directory for users so they can't see anything above > > that point. > > Is this what is called "chroot"? > > -- > Andrew >