proftpd: setting home directories?

Hi,
I have installed ProFTPD for my Fedora Core 2 system and I'm
noticing a peculiarity. I have a user "dave" with home directory
/home/dave, but when I FTP in, the displayed default directory is "/",
(and I would prefer it to be "/home/dave") and when I try and cd to
"/home/dave" I get the message, "550 No such file or directory." I
get this same message when I try to switch to directories for which
"dave" has access.
Can anyone recommend a solution or where I might get started to
find an answer to this most perplexing phenomenon?

Thanks in advance, - Dave

(E-Mail Removed) (D. Alvarado) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> Hi,
> I have installed ProFTPD for my Fedora Core 2 system and I'm
> noticing a peculiarity. I have a user "dave" with home directory
> /home/dave, but when I FTP in, the displayed default directory is "/",
> (and I would prefer it to be "/home/dave") and when I try and cd to
> "/home/dave" I get the message, "550 No such file or directory." I
> get this same message when I try to switch to directories for which
> "dave" has access.

It's called a chroot jail, and it's a security thing. Many ftp
systems do it.
You can create symbolic links from inside your chroot jail (your login
home in this case) to places you want to have visible.

Have a look at:
http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/localsite...ed/chroot.html
http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/localsite...-symlinks.html