From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 10:47:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22091 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:47:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22086 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:47:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00015; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:43:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma029920; Tue, 19 Jan 99 12:43:26 -0600 Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id MAA02936; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:43:35 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990119124334.C2795@winternet.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:43:34 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Mike Meyer , nicolas lacroix Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: create a link on a ftp References: <19990119123344.16129.qmail@ww181.netaddress.usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Mike Meyer on Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 10:41:20AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > Sounds like your ftp directories are chroot'ed. This is a good thing, > as it improves the security of your ftp server enormously. The down > side is that you can't get to any directories outside the ftp > directory, as you've just discovered. > > The solution is the union file system type; see > mount_union(8). Replace the symlink with a directory, and then "mount > -t union" the directory tree you are symlinking to onto that > directory. > > At least, this works on NetBSD. Should work on FreeBSD, but I haven't > tried it there. The union filesystem is broken in FreeBSD. -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message