Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 10:00:03 EAT From: Yen-Wei Liu <ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> To: root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil (Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Anonymous Account with ftpd Message-ID: <199508170213.TAA11401@freefall.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950816181408.1215B-100000@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil>; from "Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT" at Aug 16, 95 6:18 pm
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> I'm having a heck of a time trying to allow ~ftp/pub
> to point to a different directory (symbolic link). I'm using
> wu-ftpd, and have created ~ftp with all the "suggested" file modes for
> ~ftp/bin, ~ftp/etc ... I'm guessing that the software was designed to not
> allow changing directories to a symbolic link??? Is their any way to get
> around this.
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> I would like to continue to have ~ftp in /usr/home/ftp, but would
> like ~ftp/pub to point to /usr2/pub, i.e. My other HD...
I don't think this can be done, since anonymous ftp account is chroot'ed.
The symbolic , such as pub -> /usr2/pub , is not goning to work. Its root
dir is ~ftp.
What I have done is try to remount another partition under ~ftp/pub. Or
using NFS to export /usr/pub to itself is another good try.
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