Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:58:02 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: John.Place@rrd.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anonymous FTP and Symlinks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251055210.11566-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <OFB4EDC828.FAEEBED6-ON86256982.00644C22@rrd.com>
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 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?
ftpd WILL follow symlinks within the chroot'd home directory of user
ftp. Perhaps you could make the home directory / ?
>
> Thanks
> John
>
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Andy Farkas
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Speednet Communications
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