You have to recompile it with the --without-capabilities flag, otherwise You have to grant so much rights to pure-ftpd that running in vserver is senseless from a security point of view.
Am Freitag, 21. M�rz 2003 12:48 schrieb Schwarz Hans-Juergen: > Hello List, > I'm having problems to run pure-ftpd within my vservers. I asked about > that in the pure-ftpd list and got the following answer: > > --- snip > > > from the debs. The Problem is when I try to start pure-ftpd I get the > > following error: > > 421 Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted > > When the libcap library is installed, Pure-FTPd will use some specific > Linux system calls to reduce its field of action. > > The error you get probably means that your kernel refused to change > capabilities. > > --- snip > > I'm running everything on Debian 3.0 woody and installed pure-ftpd over > apt-get. I tried it with "S_CAPS="CAP_SYS_RESOURCE" but this did not > the trick. Any suggestions? Thank you very much. > > Regards > > Hans-Juergen -- lg, Chris
