From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 1 15:10:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20658 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:10:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20405 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16495; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:45:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:45:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Tim Yeung cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symbolic link for ftp anonymous user In-Reply-To: <9806011328.AA27446@hermes.dciem.dnd.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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