On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Eddie Strohmier wrote:
> My thinking now is to allow ftp access for the users in these
> schools by symlinking the scd0 through scd3 to each of there independant
> home directories.
That won't work. If you have a somewhere near reasonable security system,
your users will be chrooted to their home directories, meaning a symlink
to /mnt/scd0 in the home directory of user aaa would actually point to
~a/mnt/scd0 [which does not exist] when aaa is logged in by ftp.
It'll work if you don't chroot your users, but that's a security problem.
What you can do (with at least slightly more security) is to chroot all
the users to a common directory (maybe /home), and mount the CDs there.
Other alternatives are NFS exports (don't know if Windoze boxes can access
those?) or SMB shares (might be a security problem; I'm not familiar with
those [simply no need for them on a unix-only network].
LLaP
bero
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