From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 1 18:58:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06649 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 18:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06404; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 18:57:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA02918; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 20:57:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 20:57:11 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Brian Shellabarger cc: Tim Yeung , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symbolic link for ftp anonymous user In-Reply-To: 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 On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Brian Shellabarger wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Tim Yeung wrote: > > ftp anonymous is unable to see the contain of the "share" directory. > > but other user (with account) has no problem. > > Is it a premission problem? How to fix it. > > Make sure the user "ftp" has read/execute access to this directory and at > least read access to any files that you want to be available via > anonymous FTP. I'm not aware of your exact situation, but: > "chmod 555 /path/to/share/dir" should do the trick. Won't work. anonymous ftp is chroot'd to ~ftp, so if whatever you're trying to look at isn't physically under ~ftp (i.e., somewhere else and symlinked over) then you can't get at it through anonymous ftp. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message