[OpenAFS] permissions, symbolic links, ftp

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:49:09 -0500


Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:

> I would expect it to be something the ftpd did, namely, chroot to the
> user's home directory.

You can get around this problem by mounting user's homedir in
otheruser's AFS homedir:

    fs mkm /home/otheruser/user user.user

Then you don't need the symlink, you can just go directly to
/home/otheruser/user/public_html

-derek
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