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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - Jeffrey D. Dean SrA - !! Garbage in, Garbage out !! - - ****************************************** - fact: UNIX Rules, NT does not. - - (*: PC-SUPPORT 88 CS/SCMNPC :*) ---------------------------------- - Computer Technician / Programmer - * Boy Scouts of America * - - Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio - Assistant District commisioner - - __________________________________ 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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