Sub FTP accounts - home directory overwrite?

Anybody noticing where some (not all) sub FTP virtual users are having their home directory reset?

I don't have a ton of information regarding this - I just noticed it this morning. I suppose it could be something specific to me, but it seems to be happening on all of our servers.

Some users - but not all, which is really weird - appear to have their home directory reset.

For example, an entry in /etc/proftpd/%user% might have:

[email protected]:%hash%:%uid%:%gid%:%user%:/home/%user%/[email protected]:/bin/ftpsh

Which I believe should be:

[email protected]:%hash%:%uid%:%gid%:%user%:/home/%user%/subuser1:/bin/ftpsh

Something appears to be resetting the home directory for this FTP sub user from /home/%user%/subuser1 to /home/%user%/[email protected]

I really can't be certain that the home directories are set wrong... but this seems to be prevalent on multiple servers - so that kind of tells me that something is changing the home directories and I don't think it's the end users.

To see if you have any FTP sub users that have their home directory set to a directory containing an @ symbol use:

cat /etc/proftpd/* | awk -F ":" '{print $6}' | grep @

(Although this doesn't necessarily mean those users are wrong... they may have intentionally set their home directory to use an @ symbol)

This is on cPanel 11.78.0.24

 

Thanks for looking into this.

I really haven't had anyone else complain about this, and I've kind of gotten busy in some other work. I'll see if I can revisit this at some point.

It's just weird that it seems to be happening on a lot of different servers - but maybe it's been going on for some time and people just haven't noticed? Maybe it's not something recent. Just really weird.

I'll see what else I can dig up on this when I get around to it.