Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:59:47 -0400 From: Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding disk space to an FTP directory -- ideas? Message-ID: <20030703165947.GA79319@mail.it.ca> In-Reply-To: <003901c3417d$7cc07150$6e01a8c0@CITYMOUSE> References: <003901c3417d$7cc07150$6e01a8c0@CITYMOUSE>
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:09:28AM -0500, Greg Brooks wrote:
>
> I currently use most of /var for a depository of files that move in and
> out via FTP. /var runs on a secondary hard drive in the system, along
> with a partition called /storage that's currently empty.
>
> Only one user ("ftpuser") has login rights to the ftp system, although
> it's not jailed with its own /bin directory, etc.
Do you really mean "jailed", or are you talking about the user being
"chrooted", as is normally done with ftp users?
> The question: How do I take the available space in /storage and make it
> available to the ftpuser? Adding a symlink to /storage within the FTP
> area doesn't seem to work.
You could try mount_null (or mount_nullfs in 5.x), though the man page
gives warnings about bugs. Or you could simply mount the filespace in a
directory to which "ftpuser" has access. Or you could create another
user with access to /storage. Or you could use an FTP server that
supports directory aliases. I don't know of one that does, but perhaps
some searching would find one.
For your reading pleasure, there's discussion of this for proftpd at
http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/localsite/Userguide/linked/chroot-symlinks.html
Lots of options.
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Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca>
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