Hello,

I'm trying to configure pure-ftpd on a box running Suse 10.1 (which is awesome BTW). In part of the configuration they want you to add a user account to the ftp group (ftpgroup):

useradd -g ftpgroup -d /dev/null -s /etc ftpuser
This results in an "invalid home directory" error for /dev/null. Has anyone encountered this error and dealt with it? Note, I am doing this all as root but via a shell after an su command.

[EDIT - followup] - I still want to know about the /dev/null problem, but in the short term I created a home directory for ftpuser to use and that worked for now. However I can't seem to get anyone to authenticate, even after I add them with the "-m" flag to commit the changes. What is really strange is, even if I log in to SuSE as full root (not su), I can't "cat" or "cp" the pure-ftpd.conf file. It says "no such file or directory". However, I can plainly see the file if I do "ls" or "dir". How can this be?

Thanks.