Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:45:33 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> Cc: Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: allowing access to a single directory Message-ID: <20030216184533.GB86184@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <3E4FA06D.1070508@earthlink.net> References: <3E4FA06D.1070508@earthlink.net>
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On 2003-02-16 09:30, Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> wrote: > I want to allow an anonymous FTP user to see a directory in another > slice, so I put a symbolic link to it. But then anyone could access > my entire file system by appending combinations of "../" to a path > name; e.g. "ls share/../". Is there a way to stop this by only > allowing access to the linked directory and nothing more? Symlinks in anonymous FTP don't work, since anonymous ftp sessions are chrooted in the home directory of the `ftp' user. You should probably move the files in ~ftp/stuff and then symlink to ~ftp/stuff from other parts of your tree. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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