Bug 170203

Summary: mc has unintuitive behaviour w.r.t. FTP
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Florin Andrei <florin>
Component: mcAssignee: Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
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Description Florin Andrei 2005-10-09 00:00:02 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I am using mc as an FTP client. The server is a machine running FC4 and vsftpd.

Fire up mc, F9, then go to "FTP link"
I enter "user@host" then hit ENTER.
I enter the password.
At the next screen I am presented with the root (/) directory of the filesystem on that machine. If I try to navigate to /home/user it fails.

Kill mc, then re-run it.
F9, "FTP link" again.
Enter "user@host/home/user"
Enter password.
Now I landed in /home/user directly, which is fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mc-4.6.1a-0.13.FC4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual Results:  see above

Expected Results:  see above

Additional info:

Why add "/home/user"? Pretty much any other FTP client ends up in /home/user automatically.
Comment 1 Leonard den Ottolander 2005-10-26 21:31:37 UTC 
Looks more like an ftp server config issue. If you want your users chrooted you
should configure your server as such. Not being able to cd to /home/user looks
like a permissions issue.

Wrt the question whether the ftp client should move the user to its home
directory: That's a matter of personal preference. The ftp clients I know need
me to specify this (usually in a config file). You should be able to use "~" though.

Closing this bug "WONTFIX". If you really feel strongly about mc auto-cding to ~
for ftp you should take this upstream.