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. -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