Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:33:59 -0500 From: Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: allowing access to a single directory Message-ID: <3E5003C7.2020302@earthlink.net> References: <3E4FA06D.1070508@earthlink.net> <20030216184533.GB86184@gothmog.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2003-02-16 09:30, Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> wrote: > >>I want to allow an anonymous FTP user to see a directory in another >>slice, so I put a symbolic link to it. But then anyone could access >>my entire file system by appending combinations of "../" to a path >>name; e.g. "ls share/../". Is there a way to stop this by only >>allowing access to the linked directory and nothing more? > > Symlinks in anonymous FTP don't work, since anonymous ftp sessions are > chrooted in the home directory of the `ftp' user. You should probably > move the files in ~ftp/stuff and then symlink to ~ftp/stuff from other > parts of your tree. The /var slice does not have enough space to hold these files. So it sounds like I need to find another solution (like move in another HD). Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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