From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 16 13:54:27 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 F0A9E37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:54:25 -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 31DEA43F85 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:54:25 -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 18kWjt-000482-00; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:54:21 -0800 Message-ID: <3E50088B.1020108@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:54:19 -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: Bill Moran Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Questions Subject: Re: allowing access to a single directory References: <3E4FA06D.1070508@earthlink.net> <20030216184533.GB86184@gothmog.gr> <3E5003C7.2020302@earthlink.net> <3E5006FC.9040304@potentialtech.com> 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 Bill Moran wrote: > Walter wrote: > >> 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. > > You could always move the FTP directory to a slice that has room. Yes, I actually thought of that, but then I'd leave my (in this case) /usr slice vulnerable to being filled-up with ... junk. Unless I put in quotas, I suppose. Hmmm. I'll think on that; but I also have an HD which I'm not really using. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message