Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:33:18 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: robert <robert@mhi-tx.com>, freebsd list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: ftp and symbolic links Message-ID: <199902190633.BAA46635@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:29:28 %2B1300." <19990219052954.XYPT682101.mta1-rme@wocker>
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> 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
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