Re: Odd vsftp issue

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On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 10:50 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>     I have the following structure on my file system:
> 
>     $HOME = /home/kirash
>     /home/kirash/cgi-bin -> /var/www/virtual/kirash  (a symlink)
> 
>     /var/www/virtual/kirash is owned by kirash.kirash
>     /home/kirash/cgi-bin (the symlink) is also owned by kirash.kirash
> 
>     Now, why is it when I'm logged in on the server (through ssh) that I 
> can access that cgi-bin folder, put and delete files just fine, but if I 
> log in through plain old FTP, I can't switch to that folder?  I get 
> access denied.  But, if  log in through SFTP, it works just fine.  So 
> why won't vsftp let me access that folder?
> 

vsftpd by default puts all users in a chroot jail.
You need to modify /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf to give your user access to
elsewhere on the drive.
 
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