Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:45:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Yeung <tyeung@dciem.dnd.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symbolic link for ftp anonymous user Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980601144429.15962G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9806011328.AA27446@hermes.dciem.dnd.ca>
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Removing newbies CC:, not appropriate for that list. On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Tim Yeung wrote: > I have setup a symbolic link for file sharing, using the following > command > ln -s /usr/ShareDir /var/ftp/share Note that anonymous ftp chroot()s the environment to ~ftp, so you can't see /usr from the anonymous system. The way I deal with this is to actually mount the FS inside the anonymous heirarchy then make a symlink to the desired area, basically backwards of how you have it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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