wu-ftpd - symlinks

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Author: Patrick Fleming EA
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Subject: wu-ftpd - symlinks
Aside from the flaming... if you are allowing anonymous ftp into your box
and login is being chroot'd to /home/ftp/pub then you need to recreate the
directories and files that you want access to. I personally don't allow
ftp access to my machine from the outside network, I use SSH instead.

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Lisa Winkler wrote:

> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Lisa
>
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