Comments on: Linux: vsftpd and symbolic links

By: aaa

aaa — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:07:06 +0000

Firefox 3.5.7 Windows Vista
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

Well, it’s not about paranoid security, it’s about the fact that vsftpd chroots into the ftp root for every user. If your symlink points out of the chroot tree, don’t be surprised you can’t access it

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:12:35 +0000

Firefox 3.5.7 Windows 7
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 GTBDFff GTB7.0 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Glad it was helpful, and thanks

By: Kevin Carpenter

Kevin Carpenter — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:52:20 +0000

Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 Windows 7
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5

Nicely put, a small search with Google brought your site in number 3. I look forward to linking to it later to help bring it up on that ladder. I like the server, but that was certainly an annoyance and brought me to having to either re-think the setup of my web server or…

Thanks for pointing this out and documenting it.