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From: Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net>
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Subject: Anonymous ftp and symlinks
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:27:23 -0000
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> Hi all,
> 
> I have been scratching my head over this one for quite some time.  I
> cannot find any info that
> gives me an answer in the ftpd man page or anywhere else I've looked, so
> please indulge me.
> 
> I want to allow access by means of the anonymous ftp account to my CDRom
> drive.  I have set
> up the anon ftp site, and want  now to do something like:
> 
> mount /cdrom
> cd /var/ftp/pub
> ln -s deadrat /cdrom
> 
> The idea being that I can allow a Linux user (we have many here...) to do
> a network install over
> ftp.  But, when you connect and try to cd to deadrat, you get this:
> 
> ftp> cd deadrat
> 550 deadrat: No such file or directory.
> 
> How can I make the ftp server follow the symlink?  I am sure it must be
> possible, but I can't
> figure out quite how.
> 
> Thanks for any insights or thoughts.
> 
> Dan Bye
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