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Re: anonymous ftp permissions



Paul McDermott <paul@experimental.braille.uwo.ca> writes:

> add some debian stuff to it.  The debian is on another drive.  There was
> talk about mounting the drive under the anonymous directory tree.  I can't
> use hardlinks on different drives and/or partitions or filesystems.  I was
> wondering why I can't use symbolic links.  I am using ncsa and there is a

Because of security reasons anon ftp runs in a chroot'ed environment. This
is like a cage. No symlink pointing outside this cage is allowed.

Ciao,
	Martin


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