From: Brian Pape <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:22:19 -0700

>>From the howto:
>
>1. Do the /etc hacks.  Create Mort's entry in /etc/passwd and add the
>   /etc/group entry.  (Or adduser or whatever you use.)  Add the
>   entries to /etc/ftpaccess.
>
>/etc/passwd:
>mort:*:403:400:Mortimer Snerd:/home/web/mort/./:/etc/ftponly
>                                            ^^^
>   The /./ sequence determines where the chroot() is done to.  If you
>   want the chroot() done to the web directory and a chdir() to mort,
>   it would look like this:
>
>mort:*:403:400:Mortimer Snerd:/home/web/./mort/:/etc/ftponly
>                                       ^^^

I guess this isn't clear enough for some people.  Maybe we can change it
(whoever maintains it) to:

1. Do the /etc hacks.  [Create the /etc, /lib, and any other directory
you need in the directory that the chroot() is done into].

....

Brian Pape
Computer Resource Services
University California Los Angeles
[email-masked]