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