Hello,

I am in the process of setting up vsftpd as an ftp server on my linux machine.

I have a user "ftp" set up, and when you log in you can see everything in the ftp folder. I was wondering how i can create links in that folder to other areas on my machine so that i don't have to actaully copy all the folders i want the ftp to give access to?

i tried making a symbolic link using

ln -s /mnt/e/music /var/ftp

and the link was created but couldn't be opened when logged in.

anyone know what the problem could be?

thanks in advance for any help given

did you solve it?... i trying to do the same thing here.

i think i solved it:

mount --bind /path/you/want/to/include /path/to/vsftpd/docroot/subdir

Most likely file- and directory-permissions are the problem.

Say you have a folder /home/ftp. the user ftp can access it because both /home and /home/ftp have the proper permissions set. Let's say you want the user ftp to be able to access a file in /home/linuxer. first you will have to make sure that the user may actually enter the directory. You can do that by issuing

chmod o+x /home/linuxer

, however that may be unwise from a security point of view. You can also add the ftp user to the group of /home/linuxer's owner. To be able to actually download files from that directory, you need to set the proper permissions on the files inside it, for example

chmod o+r /home/linuxer/foo.mp3

. Another possibility (and maybe a more secure one) is creating links only to the files you want ftp to be able to access instead of whole directories. The permission issue still applies, you need to make sure ftp has the rights to access those files.


Good luck!

Hi !!

i had the very same problem.......... got sort it out !!

thank you very much.
[root@convenientinfo ~] #

I am also having the same problem

I got resolve by "mount --bind"


Thanks a lot