From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 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 2. 3. 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.
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.