From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 13:59: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.telecom.ksu.edu (gateway-1.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0558C37B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma009083; Tue, 24 Oct 00 15:58:31 -0500 Message-ID: <39F5F7D0.88833836@telecom.ksu.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:57:52 -0500 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John.Place@rrd.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anonymous FTP and Symlinks References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG why don't you try doing the reverse? depending on what data you're wanting to make available (assuming its not vital to sys): just mount your slices someplace inside your ftproot, and then symlink to where you need them for compatibility/seemlessness?? nathan John.Place@rrd.com wrote: > I am changing platforms for an _INTERNAL_ ftp server (to freebsd of corse). > The old platform (QNX) allowed me to set symlinks and they would be > followed. FreeBSD will not. I realize that this is because of security > purposes that it is like this but I am trying to make a seemless change of > platforms and some users will have a problem with this. Is there a way I > can force ftpd to honor symlinks? > > Thanks > John > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message