Disallow an user to go up in the tree with pure-ftpd

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Published on 2010-04-03T10:58:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 11:03 UTC
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Hello,

I added an user to pure-ftpd with adduser -h /blah user, using busybox.

Unfortunately, he is able to go up in the tree and see the root folder.

How can I disallow this ?

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