Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:47:40 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: allowing access to a single directory Message-ID: <3E5006FC.9040304@potentialtech.com> References: <3E4FA06D.1070508@earthlink.net> <20030216184533.GB86184@gothmog.gr> <3E5003C7.2020302@earthlink.net>
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Walter wrote: > 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. You could always move the FTP directory to a slice that has room. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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