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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:45:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Tim Yeung <tyeung@dciem.dnd.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: symbolic link for  ftp anonymous user
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980601144429.15962G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9806011328.AA27446@hermes.dciem.dnd.ca>

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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Tim Yeung wrote:

> I have setup a symbolic link for file sharing, using the following 
> command
> 	ln -s /usr/ShareDir /var/ftp/share

Note that anonymous ftp chroot()s the environment to ~ftp, so you can't
see /usr from the anonymous system.  The way I deal with this is to
actually mount the FS inside the anonymous heirarchy then make a symlink
to the desired area, basically backwards of how you have it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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