Which Linux user is used by vsftpd to perform file system operations for anonymous FTP users?

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The Linux user specified in the configuration option ftp_username

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The Linux user which runs the vsftpd process

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The Linux user that owns the root FTP directory served by vsftpd

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The Linux user with the same user name that was used to anonymously log into the FTP server

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The Linux user root, but vsftpd grants access to anonymous users only to globally read-/writeable files

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