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- From: jrd@cc.usu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Setting up Anonymous FTP under SVR4 (Consensys 1.3)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.183123.57500@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 18:31:22 MDT
- References: <1992Jul23.171156.3290@csi.on.ca> <Bry5Hq.KKr@trauma.rn.com>
- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <Bry5Hq.KKr@trauma.rn.com>, larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- > mcr@csi.on.ca (Michael Richardson) writes:
- >
- >> I can put and get just fine. Maybe this is a security feature :-)
- >
- > Your setup looks just fine - like ours here. anonymous ftp works
- > here fine -- the only problem we have is with making symbolically
- > linked filesystems available via anonymous ftp logins --
- >
- > ie: when we mount a filesystem under the home/pub directory (using
- > a symbolic link) even though it's mounted -- we can't access it when
- > logged in anonymously.
- >
- > the link is made -- and can be accessed via other logins --
- >
- > --
- > Larry Snyder internet: larry@gator.rn.com
- > 4950 Estero Blvd, Ft. Myers Beach, FL uucp: uunet!rde!nstar!larry
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- The difficulty with symbolic links when logging in as anonymous
- is that username causes ftp to execute a chroot to anonymous' home directory.
- Thereafter links are wrt that root. That's why we need to "cp" libc.so.1
- (whatever) to <anon's home>/usr/lib rather than just symbolically link it.
- Joe D.
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