LinuxQuestions.org - chroot problems and vsftpd

Alright. I've been trying to figure out this mystery for a long LONG time now. For a while I had a server running vsftpd with chroot and it worked just fine, but I had to reinstall the OS and wipe everything out. Ever since the new install chroot has never worked.

Now, I don't know much about chroot outside of how it should be used in vsftpd to jail users, but I assume this command should at least work:

Code:

[root@kitsapbands etc]# chroot /etc/

chroot: /bin/bash: No such file or directory

[root@kitsapbands etc]# chroot ../etc/

chroot: /bin/bash: No such file or directory

My vsftpd.conf is as follows:

Code:

anonymous_enable=NO

local_enable=YES

write_enable=YES

local_umask=022

anon_upload_enable=NO

anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO

dirmessage_enable=YES

xferlog_enable=YES

connect_from_port_20=YES

#chown_uploads=YES

#chown_username=whoever

xferlog_std_format=YES

chroot_list_enable=NO

chroot_local_user=YES

chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list

#ls_recurse_enable=YES

pam_service_name=vsftpd

userlist_enable=YES

#enable for standalone mode

#listen=YES

#tcp_wrappers=YES

The vsftpd.chroot_list has 3 accounts in it, and I've tried alternating the use of chroot_local_user and chroot_list_file to see if vsftpd would either jail the people in the list or the people not in the list, but no luck.

To start vsftpd I just run:

Code:

service vsftpd start

Is this the right way it should be done?

Something here just isn't working. Is chroot not working right, or is it vsftpd?