Odd vsftp issue

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

You're navigating outside your chroot, to a soft symlinked directory, am I
right?

You could mount the directory in some way. I've seen configurations which
use SMB, NFS and loopbacks.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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> On Behalf Of Ashley M. Kirchner
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 18:51
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Odd vsftp issue
> 
> 
>     I have the following structure on my file system:
> 
>     $HOME = /home/kirash
>     /home/kirash/cgi-bin -> /var/www/virtual/kirash  (a symlink)
> 
>     /var/www/virtual/kirash is owned by kirash.kirash
>     /home/kirash/cgi-bin (the symlink) is also owned by kirash.kirash
> 
>     Now, why is it when I'm logged in on the server (through ssh) that I
> can access that cgi-bin folder, put and delete files just fine, but if I
> log in through plain old FTP, I can't switch to that folder?  I get
> access denied.  But, if  log in through SFTP, it works just fine.  So
> why won't vsftp let me access that folder?
> 
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