From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 08:24:48 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA18937 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 08:24:48 -0700 Received: from unix10.pressimage.fr (unix10.pressimage.fr [194.2.222.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA18923 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 08:24:35 -0700 Received: from [194.2.222.120] (jc-mac.pressimage.net [194.2.222.120]) by unix10.pressimage.fr (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA05659; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:24:21 +0200 X-Sender: jc@mail.pressimage.fr Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-NCC-RegID: fr.pressimage Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:24:21 +0200 To: "Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT" From: jcaron@pressimage.net (Jacques Caron) Subject: Re: Anonymous Account with ftpd Cc: questions on FreeBSD Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 20:18 16/08/95, Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT wrote: > 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. > > 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... When an anonymous user logs in, there is a chroot done to ~ftp. So /usr2/pub is in fact ~ftp/usr2/pub... You need to mount everything in ~ftp. Jacques. +-------------------------+------------------------+ |Jacques Caron | Pressimage Telematique | |jcaron@pressimage.net | 5/7 rue Raspail | |Tel: +33 (1) 49 88 63 56 | 93108 Montreuil Cedex | |Fax: +33 (1) 49 88 63 64 | France | +-------------------------+------------------------+