Re: Virtual Directories

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 11:41 am, Shota Gedenidze wrote:
> Dear List Members,
>
> I want to create virtual directories in users home folder, i.e.
> users home is /home/user1, I want folder /files/data1 to be "listed" in
> user1's root folder as "data1" when he logs in.
>
> I tried to use symlinks, which works fine, but I wanted to ask if there
> is any other solution, like storing real and virtual directories
> in file or sql table.

nope, symlinks is how you do it.

> One more question is about permissions, I can't find any other way to
> set permissions on folders other than file system level permissions.
> Is there such kind of?

Nope.

pure-ftpd is a pretty simplistic ftp server.  If you need to be able to 
custom-tailor a virtual FTP filesystem with fine-grained per-directory 
permissions and such, you'll probably want to use something like proftpd :)

-Jeremy

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