I don't know if this is exclusive to Leopard, but if anyone know how it works in earlier versions, please tell.
What I'm trying to do is give multiple users (in a group) read&write access to the same folder, while keeping other users away from it completely (other users seem to be able to read the group folder, so I thought I'd put it somewhere else, and make symlinks to from each user)... now, the symlinks show up when I log in through FTP, but since I'm chrooted to my home folder (/home/<user>) I can't access where the symlink is pointing (it's in a subfolder of the default web site folder). So, is there a way of having the symlinks acting as if they were normal folders?
I tried editing /etc/ftpd.conf and adding the following line, as per the man pages suggestion, but no dice, symlinks still show up as links (not plain directories) in ftp programs, and I can't access them.
Code:
hidesymlinks all
I could run through sftp, but then I'm able to see the whole file system, something I wouldn't like because of security risks, and it makes it more complicated for the other users.
Any other ideas?
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What I'm trying to do is give multiple users (in a group) read&write access to the same folder, while keeping other users away from it completely (other users seem to be able to read the group folder, so I thought I'd put it somewhere else, and make symlinks to from each user)... now, the symlinks show up when I log in through FTP, but since I'm chrooted to my home folder (/home/<user>) I can't access where the symlink is pointing (it's in a subfolder of the default web site folder). So, is there a way of having the symlinks acting as if they were normal folders?
I tried editing /etc/ftpd.conf and adding the following line, as per the man pages suggestion, but no dice, symlinks still show up as links (not plain directories) in ftp programs, and I can't access them.
Code:
hidesymlinks all
I could run through sftp, but then I'm able to see the whole file system, something I wouldn't like because of security risks, and it makes it more complicated for the other users.
Any other ideas?
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