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Old 09-22-2003, 08:51 PM   #1
tonphi
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Soft Links


I am trying to create an FTP account for a user that will have restricted privileges. When logging in, they will be unable to "cd ..". They will only see "/" even though they are in their home directory. I would like to then create soft links to files elsewhere in the filesystem for them to download (read only). How do I do this? Can I do the same with Telnet?
 
Old 09-22-2003, 09:20 PM   #2
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Hi.

You can create soft links, or symbolic links like...

ln -s /any/path/userfile.doc /home/tonphi/userfile.doc

That will create a symbolic link of userfile.doc to the file in your home directory.

I use pure-ftpd and this works alright for me.

>Craig
 
  


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