[plug] Anon FTP Accounts

[Rob Dunne]

Hi Brad,
       that appears to be what is done on RedHat 6.0
tp/lib has the following libs
lycra >ls
ld-2.1.1.so*    libc-2.1.1.so*  libnsl-2.1.1.so*  libnss_files-2.1.1.so*
ld-linux.so.2@  libc.so.6@      libnsl.so.1@      libnss_files.so.2@

Brad Campbell writes:
 > G'day all, 
 > I'm playing with anon ftp accounts on a Debian Slink box,
 > the man page for ftpd suggests putting ls in 
 > ~ftp/bin so that the ftp client can access a directory listing, 
 > which is not a bad idea really :p) BUT!
 > simply copying /bin/ls to ~ftp/bin does not work, because
 > the ftpd chroots to the ~ftp directory
 > I have been able to make it work, by creating an ~ftp/lib
 > directory, and putting libc and ld-linux.so in there, and 
 > putting ld.so.cache in ~ftp/etc.
 > Is there a trick to this, or is this the way to go about it.
 > Or should I just compile up a static version of ls and use
 > that ?
 > 
 > -- 
 > Brad....

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