Topic: ftp can't follow sysmobic links!

[pbearne]

hi

I have an Ibay which I am using to backup from a remote site with ftp.

Inorder to create enough space I have a hard drive mounted /mnt/backupdisk and an sysmolic link (ls -s /mnt/backupdick/backup .../ibays/backup) for the whole Ibay

But when I try to conect to this with Ftp I can't follow the link! It works in windows expoler.

Can this be fixed and How?

[Reinhold]

Hi Paul,

Using chroot?
...symlinks that point outside the new root (the ftp user’s home directory ) will not work ...

Look into the proftpd mini how to:
http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/doc/contrib/ProFTPD-mini-HOWTO-Chroot.html
or the manual
http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/localsite/Userguide/linked/userguide.html

Solution just chroot ftp-users to your big disk!

Regards
Reinhold

[pbearne]

Hi

OK i see that with chroot I can change the ftp root folder

So if I change the root to /mnt/bigdisk will this break all the ibays?

so do I have to change where I mount the hard drive?

or if I chroot to the root / work or will ?