Thanks for the advice jggimi
Having read a little it became a little clearer in that I was just adding the words ftp-chroot anywhere and it needs to be within the correct area of the file.
I have therefore create the user testuser with the default login class
I have edited the dafault part of login.conf file to read
Code:
default:\
:path=/usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/local/bin:\
:umask=022:\
:datasize-max=512M:\
:datasize-cur=512M:\
:maxproc-max=256:\
:maxproc-cur=128:\
:openfiles-cur=128:\
:stacksize-cur=4M:\
:localcipher=blowfish,6:\
:ypcipher=old:\
:tc=auth-defaults:\
:tc=auth-ftp-defaults:
:ftp-chroot
I have then restarted the system (as I dont know the command line instruction to restart the login.conf file) and testuser is not jailed.
This really must be a case of wood from the trees here.