From 35ec3be5427a54facd5f6299fda2da4c146d4846 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: =?UTF-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Lyson=C4=9Bk?= <olysonek@redhat.com>

Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:22:43 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] Document allow_writeable_chroot in the man page

---

 vsftpd.conf.5 | 9 +++++++++

 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/vsftpd.conf.5 b/vsftpd.conf.5

index 45b3f9c..d1f0db5 100644

--- a/vsftpd.conf.5

+++ b/vsftpd.conf.5

@@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ Only applies if

 is active. If set to YES, anonymous users will be allowed to use secured SSL

 connections.

+Default: NO

+.TP

+.B allow_writeable_chroot

+Allow chroot()'ing a user to a directory writable by that user. Note that

+setting this to YES is potentially dangerous. For example, if the user

+creates an 'etc' directory in the new root directory, they could potentially

+trick the C library into loading a user-created configuration file from the

+/etc/ directory.

+

 Default: NO

 .TP

 .B anon_mkdir_write_enable

-- 

2.14.3