What is chroot in proftpd

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Published on 2010-04-04T06:33:32Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 6:43 UTC
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I am using proftpd and on every login I get the following message:

Apr  4 08:26:23 
mydomain proftpd[4240]: 
mydomain.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) - 
FTP session opened. 

Apr  4 08:26:23 
mydomain proftpd[4240]: 
mydomain.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) - 
Preparing to chroot to directory 'path-to/domain'

Can anyone explaom to me what this means. Everything works fine however, the are no other messages except for these 2.

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