From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 22:15:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (mail1.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8137511540 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:15:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-216-76-138-179.atl.bellsouth.net [216.76.138.179]) by mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA19603; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:15:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from wghicks (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA46635; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:33:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199902190633.BAA46635@bellsouth.net> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: robert , freebsd list , wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: ftp and symbolic links In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:29:28 +1300." <19990219052954.XYPT682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:33:18 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ftpd does a chroot. And everything it uses must be under the ftp root. > I'm not explaining this very well. But you can't do a cd outside the tree > below the ftp home directory. Hopefully someone else will step in and > explain better. It does a chroot for anonymous FTP. root is ordinarily not allowed to login to ftp, for obvious reasons, but ordinary users can login to a default configured ftpd as themselves and start in their home directory. I wouldn't recommend doing this over the public internet though and suggest that the '-A' flag should be used for most servers accessible that way. Good Luck, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message