Change document root ftp from / to web - how?

I would like to change the document root for the ftp clients from "/" to "/web".

In /proftpd.conf I find this entry:

Is it possibly to change it to "/web" so that the client can't change and see the .spamassassin, maildir etc. directory?

tom

 

You can try

Code:

DefaultRoot ~/web

Restart Proftpd afterwards.

 

I've already tried to do that but it didn't work.

tom

 

No, but I will do it

tom

 

According to this it should be supported: http://chronos.cs.msu.su/proftpd/Configuration.html#DefaultRoot

Did you restart proftpd?

 

sure, I did

tom

 

And what exactly happens when you use

Code:

DefaultRoot ~/web

? Any error messages?

 

Wouldn't you just change their home directory in /etc/passwd? That's what I've done in the past on my other servers, but I'm brand new to ISPConfig so maybe it wouldn't like that. I don't see why it wouldn't work though.

 

Don't do it! It wil break dependencies, for example your users' procmail recipes won't work anymore!

 

It must be:

DefaultRoot "~/web"

not
DefaultRoot ~/web

 

Great, it's working now

tom