Re: [cobalt-users] Symbolic Link

[Peter Ketteridge <pk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tony

I think this is an ownership issue, you need to change the ownership of the
links to something other than root or admin with the chown command.  I am no
lunix guru and I am sure someone here will set you on the right path.

Regards




>
> I am experiencing the same problem,
>
> Within a virtual site, I have created a directory in the site
> administrator's user account and then created symbolic links to that
> directory from the home directories of each user.
>
> When connecting to the ftp server as admin or the virtual site
> administrator, I am able to view and follow these symbolic links fine, but
> when logging to the ftp server as a standard user I can see the symbolic
> link but cannot access it.
>
> I have checked all of the permissions for the relevant directories and
they
> have read and executable set for everyone.
>
> It would be very useful to have a shared area on the ftp site for every
> user to access, and this functionality doesn't appear to be readily
> available in the standard configuration.
>
> For security reasons, I do not want to make everyone a site administrator.
>