Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:45:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FTP: Following symlinks Message-ID: <19981219134523.C24125@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812191030140.11280-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>; from Dean Hollister on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 10:31:47AM %2B0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812191030140.11280-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 10:31:47 +0800, Dean Hollister wrote: > > Hiyall, > > I need to put a few symlinks in my ftp directories, to enable access to > directories on other filesystems. I can see the symlink, but cannot follow > it. > > I've tried the standard ftpd and proftpd. Any ideas? Symlinks work fine if you log in as a normal user. Presumably you're talking about anonymous ftp, which uses a chrooted environment. In a chrooted environment, symlinks relate to new root. I'd guess you're trying to get outside the new root. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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