Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:54:19 -0500 From: Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: allowing access to a single directory Message-ID: <3E50088B.1020108@earthlink.net> References: <3E4FA06D.1070508@earthlink.net> <20030216184533.GB86184@gothmog.gr> <3E5003C7.2020302@earthlink.net> <3E5006FC.9040304@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > 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. 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
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