Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:01:30 -0400 From: Jerry Hicks <gehicks@alltel.net> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: access symlink in ftpd?? Message-ID: <BA963CA6-A2BA-11D7-9B09-0030657B5F1E@alltel.net> In-Reply-To: <20030620005025.GS93137@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > Overlong lines. > > On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:44:13 +0200, Andre wrote: > On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:45:27 +0200, Andre wrote: > On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:46:56 +0200, Andre wrote: > On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:46:59 +0200, Andre wrote: > > Once is enough, and this time is 10 hours in the future. > >> I have setup a FreeBSD box with Mysql,apache+mod_php for practical >> purposes, when i want to update the webpages on the FreeBSD machine >> i found it very hard to first use FTP to transfer the pages from my >> windows machine, and then SSH in to the FreeBSD machine and move the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> files to the documentroot. >> >> how do i do a symlink that points to the default ftpddir >> ( /usr/home/name ) ? > > What's the problem? > > $ ln -s $documentroot ~ > > But that's not the real answer. If you're using ftp, you're also > transferring your password in the clear. After that, you don't need > ssh to access the machine; you've already compromised yourself. I use > rsync for this purpose. [snip] "But I don't have rsync on my windows machine..." Get it (and ssh too) here: http://cygwin.com/ Or better yet, just start using FreeBSD exclusively :-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks gehicks@alltel.net
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