What if you hard link'd the directory? On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:26:08PM -0600, Erik Anderson wrote: > Hi all - I'm trying to set up an ftp server to allow our customers to > download softwarem, updates, yada yada, > > The idea is to, upon login, dump the users into their chrooted home dir, > which would contain some of our custom software, writted specifically > for them. This was easy to do.....now comes the catch: > > We want to also give them access to a "Common" directory as well. Any > ideas? > > I've thought about structuring the ftp tree as follows: > /Common > /cust1 > /cust2 > /cust3 > giving the customer only read access to their folder and the Common > folder....however, the management doesn't like the idea of presenting > our list of customers to the whole world. Soooo... > > Here was my second strategy: > /Common > /cust1 > |_ symlink to Common > /cust2 > |_ symling to Common > > etc etc.....well that didn't work since the users were chrooted to their > home dirs. > > I'm stumped! > > Thanks- > Erik Anderson > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list