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- From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
- Subject: Re: BSD ftpd doesn't work?
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:01:49 GMT
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- In article <BzD6un.2JB@news.rn.com> larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >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.
-
- ftpd does a chroot to ~ftp when running "anonymously." This will make
- it very hard for it to find any symbolic links that are absolute paths
- relative to / rather than ~ftp. You will have to come up with some
- scheme to have your nfs daemon mount things somewhere in the ~ftp
- subtree. I think this will explain your problem.
-
- Warner
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