how to make links in vsftpd?
 

Hello,

i've searched google and this forum here didn't answer my question either.
How can I make a link from the home-dir of a ftp-user in vsftpd to a destination, for example /mnt/pladde...?
Thanks for all advises

well symlinks don't seem to work very well with ftp servers, so i'll give you
an example of something you can do .. lets say you have a second hard
drive that has some of the data you want to host on a ftp server, which
we'll call /mnt/storage ... and lets say you have your ftp users locked in a
folder /home/ftpusers, in which this is the location you want people to
collect the data ... so first you will make a folder within this location, so you use the mkdir command, and we'll call it ftpfolder .. so now we have a folder called /home/ftpusers/ftpfolder ... you can use the mount command with the following argument ..

so the contents of /mnt/storage will not only be located in /mnt/storage
but now also in /home/ftpusers/ftpfolder ...

i am pretty sure this is the question your asking, just state otherwise
if i misunderstood you ....

I tried to make symlink in /var/ftp/pub/ pointing to /mnt/hda3/games but ftp users cannot enter that link. I wonder what went wrong. I did chown 744 the hole directory "games" and "pub" .

'Sorry for the mistypings. I should also mention that my target directory is INSIDE /dev/hda3 so i don't want to use MOUNT --BIND , as i don't want to share the whole partition.

you don't have to share the whole partition ... share the specific folder .. so if for example, i am going to be making total assumption on this, but thats the only way i can give
an example ... so lets assume /dev/hda3 is mounted as
/usr/local ... and the data you want to share is for example :
/usr/local/i/want/to/share/this/particular/folder/on/devhda3
then all you have to type is :
as you can see you are only sharing that particular folder,
as you say, that is inside /dev/hda3 ...