From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 16:58:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA28D37B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:58:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9ONw2a12603; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:58:03 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:58:02 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: John.Place@rrd.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anonymous FTP and Symlinks 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 Tue, 24 Oct 2000 John.Place@rrd.com wrote: > I am changing platforms for an _INTERNAL_ ftp server (to freebsd of corse). > The old platform (QNX) allowed me to set symlinks and they would be > followed. FreeBSD will not. I realize that this is because of security > purposes that it is like this but I am trying to make a seemless change of > platforms and some users will have a problem with this. Is there a way I > can force ftpd to honor symlinks? ftpd WILL follow symlinks within the chroot'd home directory of user ftp. Perhaps you could make the home directory / ? > > Thanks > John > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message