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I'm having some problems with my anon-ftp service.  Specifically,
symbolic links are not followed for anon users.  Can anyone give me a
pointer on where to look for these settings?

jerm

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Jeremy P. Campbell
DCIT, Systems Integration Group
Clemson University, USA
12I Poole Hall

Quote:>I'm running RH 5.2 on an X86 box.

>I'm having some problems with my anon-ftp service.  Specifically,
>symbolic links are not followed for anon users.  Can anyone give me a
>pointer on where to look for these settings?

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Quote:>This is probably because anonymous users are chrooted to the /home/ftp
>directory and there is no way to chroot them and at the same time access
>files outside of the root directory. A symlink within /home/ftp should
>still work though.  

If it did work it would be a too easy way to break out of the chroot tree.
Normal (hard) links would work, but you would not be able to link to
a file outside the chrooted tree, as it is not possible to look up
the inode number of the target of that link while  trapped inside the
chrooted directory tree.

Villy