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Date:      Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:09:55 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Christopher J. Umina" <uminac@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Question Mailing List <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FTP Links
Message-ID:  <20020921190954.GA31570@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020920173618.D2713-100000@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com>
References:  <20020920173618.D2713-100000@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com>

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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 05:37:14PM -0400, Christopher J. Umina wrote:
> How can I make a symbolic link type thing that works in my FTP directory?
> Is it possible without moving the files?  I hope somebody can help me.

I assume you really mean "a symbolic link pointing outside the FTP
subdirectory".  The answer is 'no' since (for anonymous ftp) ftpd uses
the chroot syscall to limit its visibility to this subdirectory, and
so it has no way to access files outside it.

Kris

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