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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 11:21:09 +0800 (WST)
From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: FTP: Following symlinks
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On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:

> Symlinks work fine if you log in as a normal user.

And they work fine across the *same* filesystem.

> 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.

Would an nfs mount be the solution?

Regards,

d.


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