From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 18 19:18:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14370 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:16:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14361 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA19131; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:45:24 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA24215; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:45:23 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981219134523.C24125@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:45:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dean Hollister , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FTP: Following symlinks References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Dean Hollister on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 10:31:47AM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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