VSFTPD overall “super-user”

Question

Is it possible to have a "super-user" which can login to VSFTPD and view ALL other home dirs?

grawity · Answer 1 · 2011-04-18 12:27:24Z

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Yes, the user is called root.

answered Apr 18 '11 at 12:27

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	Thanks Grawity, but by default, root login over FTP only allows access to root's home folder. Is there a way to let root login higher up the directory tree so it can access other FTP user's home folders? – MFB Apr 19 '11 at 2:36
	@MFB: Do you have chroot enabled in vsftpd's config? – grawity Apr 19 '11 at 11:04
	chroot_local_user=YES – MFB Apr 21 '11 at 3:27
	@MFB: You will need to disable chroot for `root`. Since vsftpd doesn't seem to have an exclusion list, your choices are b) change root's home directory to `/` c) run a second copy of vsftpd, without chroot, but restricted to the `root` user. – grawity Apr 21 '11 at 12:29

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