From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 16 13:34:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4131437B401 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E7943F3F for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:34:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0cal9lv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.166.191] helo=earthlink.net) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18kWQE-0007XE-00; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:34:02 -0800 Message-ID: <3E5003C7.2020302@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:33:59 -0500 From: Walter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Questions Subject: Re: allowing access to a single directory References: <3E4FA06D.1070508@earthlink.net> <20030216184533.GB86184@gothmog.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2003-02-16 09:30, Walter 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