From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 6:25:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C007037B400 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 06:25:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b142.otenet.gr [212.205.244.150]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g13EPqLA010746; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:25:53 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g13ECvb15103; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:12:57 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:12:56 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Troy Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Symbolic link problem Message-ID: <20020203141255.GB7827@hades.hell.gr> References: <3C5CC8A5.F2EA4B85@myrealbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C5CC8A5.F2EA4B85@myrealbox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-02-02 23:20, Troy wrote: > Hi guys, > I've been trying to create a symbolic link from one user directory to > another, but get errors when trying to get that file via ftp. What I'm > trying to do is create a symlink for a ISO file from /home/user1 to > /home/user2, and doing "ln -s /home/user1/file.iso > /home/user2/file.iso" When I do a ls -la, it shows it as a symlink, and > it points to the correct file, but when I ftp to my server and try and > retrieve it, it gives me a error 550, not found. Anyone know what I'm > doing wrong? Thanks! Are the users chroot'ed when they ftp to your system? The stock ftpd will follow symlinks to files, if the origin of the links has not been 'hidden' by chrooting intoo the user's home. -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message