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- From: garnett@refuge.Colorado.EDU (Santiago de la Paz)
- Subject: Re: BSD ftpd doesn't work?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.210330.15409@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <BzC0zD.G0y@ddsw1.mcs.com> <BzD6un.2JB@news.rn.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:03:30 GMT
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- In article <BzD6un.2JB@news.rn.com> larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
- >
- >>I'm trying to bring up the ftpd from the wustrl archive; the one UUNET uses.
- >>I would like to be able to log connections among other things.
- >
- >Does it support symbolic links? My problem is that I can't have
- >symbolic links off my anonymous ftp directories. The directories
- >can be made, and will show up when logging into the directory from
- >from the shell, or valid login's using ftp, but don't show up when
- >logging in via anonymous ftp.
-
- The problem is not the symbolic links, but rather the chroot() that ftpd
- does when you come in as an anonymous user. Once the ftp homedir is made the
- root directory, you can't reach anything outside of it whether symlinked or
- not.
-
- ~james
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