I used the mount --bind cmd when making a dir that all my users could read to
On Apr 6, 2005 1:16 PM, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to come up with a way for two seperate users logging in via > FTP to have a location where they can share files back and forth. > > That is to say, user A and user B would both be able to get to this, > write to it, delete files even if they were put there by the other user > etc. > > The only thing I came up with so far (I was in a hurry) was creating a > seperate directory elsewhere, and having a symlink called "shared" in > each of the users home dirs pointing at this seperate directory. > > The dir is owned by user A, and the group is set to that of B, and the > dir is mode 770. > > This works out fine when I log in via ncftp, however when i use IE the > "shared" item isn't even listed. > > I use proftpd for the ftp server, so I found the ShowSymlinks option and > set that. However it still doesn't show this symlink in either user A or > B's home dir, when using IE. > > Proftpd has a setting to show dotfiles, but due to other uses of the ftp > server, that's just not acceptable. > > So I'm looking for a better way to do this, any ideas? > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
