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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 1995 14:04:23 +0000 ()
From:      "Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT" <root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil>
To:        patl@asimov.volant.org
Cc:        ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Resolved: Anonymous Account with ftpd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950817135939.213B-100000@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil>
In-Reply-To: <9508171520.AA28260@asimov.volant.org>

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	Thanx to everyone that helped, (about 8 people)
The answer was to use mount_null /usr2/pub ~ftp/pub
Worked great!!!
		Jeff




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On Thu, 17 Aug 1995 patl@asimov.volant.org wrote:

> |>  >       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.
> 
> Under SunOS/Solaris, this would normally be done using a loopback mount.
> (Faster than NFS, maintains unix semantics, and doesn't open the security
> hole of having an NFS server running...)
> 
> I see that the mount(8) man page references mount_lofs, but there is no
> mount_lofs man page, nor is there an /sbin/mount_lofs.  Does anyone know
> why loopback filesystem support seems to be missing from FreeBSD?
> 
> 
> 
> -Pat
> 



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