Subject: Re: chrooted ftpd can't find /bin/ls
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Grey Wolf <greywolf@siteROCK.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/08/2000 11:52:22
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jukka Marin wrote:

# Hello,
# 
# I wanted to keep ftp users in their home directories, so I enabled chroot
# in /etc/ftpchroot.  Nice - but now "dir" no longer works in ftp because
# /bin/ls can't be found in the chrooted environment.
# 
# Is there an easy solution to this problem?  Creating hardlinks in 20,000+
# home directories doesn't sound like an ideal solution.. ;) :(

Would it be worthwhile to build the guts of the dir command into ftpd?
It would more or less make the requirement for /bin/ls obsolete.

...or has this already been done?

#   -jm



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