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For others who want to run proftpd as non root, please follow this article

http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/doc/contrib/ProFTPD-mini-HOWTO-Nonroot.html

Mods: This might be a good link to be put...

Thanks frodon for your prompt replies :). I've posted to the proftpd forums, hopefully someone else has tried it before :guitar:

Basic security. Any service running as root is really dangerous. Its best to run it as a user with specific access rights so that critical access permissions are always followed.

I have successfully installed proftpd and run it as root. It works fine when I connect to it from inside or outside my local network.
I want to change the permissions so that the server runs as non...