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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:58:02 +1100 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        John.Place@rrd.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anonymous FTP and Symlinks
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251055210.11566-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <OFB4EDC828.FAEEBED6-ON86256982.00644C22@rrd.com>

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On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 John.Place@rrd.com wrote:

> I am changing platforms for an _INTERNAL_ ftp server (to freebsd of corse).
> The old platform (QNX) allowed me to set symlinks and they would be
> followed. FreeBSD will not. I realize that this is because of security
> purposes that it is like this but I am trying to make a seemless change of
> platforms and some users will have a problem with this. Is there a way I
> can force ftpd to honor symlinks?

ftpd WILL follow symlinks within the chroot'd home directory of user
ftp.  Perhaps you could make the home directory / ?

> 
> Thanks
> John
> 

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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au
  
        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/
  




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