> > I solved the problem with .message file not displaying.  The only problem 
> > I have left is when doing 'ls -l' it shows a number for the user instead 
> > of name (i.e. '0' instead of 'root').
> 
> That's easy.  Create ~ftp/etc/pwd.db and ~ftp/etc/spwd.db files.  Of course,
> doing THIS isn't as easy as it looks, since the tool that does it KNOWS
> that the results HAVE to go in /etc...
> 
> Either quickly edit pwd_mkdb to be more flexible, or put a copy of pwd_mkdb
> in ~ftp/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb, put a shell in ~ftp/bin/sh, and use chroot.

Nifty 4.4BSD trick: union mount ~ftp/etc on top of /etc, and then just 
do a normal pwd_mkdb.  You may get a complaint about entries missing 
from the password file when you go to unmount it, but it works just 
fine.

 - irving -