Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:43:34 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>, nicolas lacroix <datasafe@netscape.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: create a link on a ftp Message-ID: <19990119124334.C2795@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901191034140.24207-100000@guru.phone.net>; from Mike Meyer on Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 10:41:20AM -0800 References: <19990119123344.16129.qmail@ww181.netaddress.usa.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901191034140.24207-100000@guru.phone.net>
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Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> wrote: > Sounds like your ftp directories are chroot'ed. This is a good thing, > as it improves the security of your ftp server enormously. The down > side is that you can't get to any directories outside the ftp > directory, as you've just discovered. > > The solution is the union file system type; see > mount_union(8). Replace the symlink with a directory, and then "mount > -t union" the directory tree you are symlinking to onto that > directory. > > At least, this works on NetBSD. Should work on FreeBSD, but I haven't > tried it there. The union filesystem is broken in FreeBSD. -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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