in response .. Yeah whatever Craig tell me -- thats why SuSE Slackware and any other Decent distro of Linux stopped putting Wu-ftp on their distro's cuz of its exceptional security ... hmmm let me think ??? heh The answer is NO to the question WU was removed from SuSE at Ver 7 & Slackware in favour of Pro ftpd personally i use pureftp which is built with stack and bounds attack checking .. thats local and remote exploit attack checking to everyone else. Most exploits for linux daemons concern WU-FTPD its just not a safe package to use. just recently another alert for WU was released as for my Muppet comment was just a comment i posted from a mail a friend of mine sent about having a linux box online for less than a day running WU ftp only to find it got rooted in less than a fee hours cuz of WU-FTP's bad security. ........... Nige ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig White" To: Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 9:27 AM Subject: Re: wu-ftpd - symlinks > Nancy Sollars wrote: > > > > im going to flame u for this but u should'nt be using Wu ftpd cuz it has > > more holes than an English Tea bag .. please use either Pro-ftpd or Pureftpd > > > > As most would have read from a post i made about my friend martin in England > > who ran a box with Wu on it - his exact comment was u would have to be a > > muppet to use it .. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Lisa Winkler" > > To: > > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:37 PM > > Subject: wu-ftpd - symlinks > > > > > Probably a dumb question. I would like to symlink a directory under my > > > /home/ftp/pub. I know this is possible - lots of sites do it. But wu-ftp > > > doesn't recognize symlinks created by ln -s. Is there something special I > > can > > > do to get the link to work in wu-ftpd? > > > > ---- > I find this response to be offensive because it offers no help to the > questioner and even worse, it suggests that the questioner is less than > smart to use it. As is somewhat typical from a Nigel posting, it begs > someone to defend a software package that he doesn't like. I'll pass on > that endeavor except to say that some people curse the darkness and some > people light a candle. > > symbolic links indeed work in wu-ftpd / you can see from > that they are used for the > purposes of linking libraries. > > More than likely, it is a permissions problem but it may be affected by > the chroot of a particular user. Try the link using a 'real' user and it > will likely work. Check your folder/file permissions. > > Craig > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >