On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:51:15 -0600, Josh Close <josh at teamfreeze.com> wrote: > I just made a symlink like this > > ln -s /path/to/directory /home/user > > and it worked. So it is like the user is actually in that directory. > hummm - a while back I had to use lofs because the ftp server/chroot wouldn't allow soft links... this was on solaris or AIX tho - I can remember which... sorry for the mislead. > -Josh > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Johnny Fulcrum [mailto:johnnyfulcrum at mn.rr.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:50 AM > To: josh at teamfreeze.com; TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] chrooted ftp users and symlink > > > On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:27:06 -0600, Josh Close <josh at teamfreeze.com> > wrote: > >> K, now that I have the other ftp issue solved, I have a new one. >> >> I want to get a user to have access to only a certain directory. So I >> have >> the user chrooted when using ftp. Then I made a symlink to the directory >> that I want them to use. >> >> ln -s /path/to/directory link_name > > > That don't work in chroot jail. look up loopback mounts (lofs) - those > work in a chroot jail > >> >> You can change into that directory when on the command line, but when >> logged >> in via ftp, it doesn't work. This is the error I get: >> >> 550 Can't change directory to some_directory: No such file or directory >> >> some_directory looks like this: >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Mar 9 08:01 somedirectory -> >> /path/to/some_somedirectory >> >> Would this be an option with the the ftp server? I didn't see anything >> in >> the docs about it. Would it make a difference if I did a "ln -d" >> instead? >> >> -Josh >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list