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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:24:21 +0200
From:      jcaron@pressimage.net (Jacques Caron)
To:        "Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT" <root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil>
Cc:        questions on FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Anonymous Account with ftpd
Message-ID:  <v01530503ac590f5ca569@[194.2.222.120]>

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At 20:18 16/08/95, Jeffrey D. Dean ROOT wrote:
>        I'm having a heck of a time trying to allow ~ftp/pub
>to point to a different directory (symbolic link). I'm using
>wu-ftpd, and have created ~ftp with all the "suggested" file modes for
>~ftp/bin, ~ftp/etc ... I'm guessing that the software was designed to not
>allow changing directories to a symbolic link??? Is their any way to get
>around this.
>
>        I would like to continue to have ~ftp in /usr/home/ftp, but would
>like ~ftp/pub to point to /usr2/pub, i.e. My other HD...

When an anonymous user logs in, there is a chroot done to ~ftp. So
/usr2/pub is in fact ~ftp/usr2/pub...

You need to mount everything in ~ftp.

Jacques.

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