RE: [cobalt-users] ftpwho

["Jolley, Carl" <Carl.Jolley@xxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] ftpwho


on 6-28-02 1:42 PM, Larry Smith stated:

> _BINGO_
> 
> You just hit the nail on the head Tim.  Two atta-boys to you.
> 
> After doing much testing, I tried creating an empty "etc" directory in a
> domain (/home/sites/site??) and then made a _link_ to /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group.  _does_not_work_.  I then made a copy of passwd and group into
> this directory and it _does_ work.  So it is definitely the chroot jail
that
> is causing this particular problem.

So is there a fix?? Why would the ftp user and pass work before and now with
the update not. Is it more of a proftpd issue??

Everything works great, or so I am assuming, just no darn idea what site you
are doing when you log in the first time when you ftp. I guess for setting
absolute linux paths I could use www.domain.com and not site#.

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Is this a proftpd issue?

It might be. If previously proftpd grabbed the
contents of /etc/user and /etc/group BEFORE
doing the chroot call but the current version
tries to access the files AFTER the chroot()
call that would explain the behaviour.