From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 09:40:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA23818 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 09:40:52 -0700 Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA23812 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 09:40:46 -0700 Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id MAA04647; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:40:36 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id MAA03986; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:40:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:40:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT" cc: questions on FreeBSD Subject: Re: Anonymous Account with ftpd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, 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... I looked at the ftp and ftpd manpages, and I think that whatever home directory you assign to the user 'ftp' in passwd, that becomes the home directory, or root, of an ftp user. That give you enough leeway? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0.5-snap-0726) and (301) 220-2114 | n3lxx (FreeBSD 2.0.5-snap-0622) -- Great! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------