From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 23:05:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F0B16A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C4143FE1 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:05:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from d150-57-33.home.cgocable.net (d150-57-33.home.cgocable.net [24.150.57.33]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5264B344D; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 02:05:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Bobowski To: "Sunil Sunder Raj" , srenna@vdbmusic.com Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 02:04:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310020205.00129.bbobowski@cogeco.ca> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sym links X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 06:05:19 -0000 On October 2, 2003 02:01 am, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: > 2) How can you make a symlink for a user so that it can be seen while > they are in an FTP session. Basically, I have a user who cannot see the > symlink I've set up for them...not sure why. > --AFAIK it is not possible. Even then I suppose it depends on teh ftp > server. Actually, with the default ftpd turned on in inetd, a link in the user's home directory(chown'd to that user) showed up just fine when I logged into ftp as that user, and also allowed me to get to the appropriate directory without attempting to navigate the directory tree. I would try, then, running chown on the symlink in question. -BB