how to show symlinks in pureftpd?

[radim_h]

Hello,
does anyone how to make pureftpd show symlinks? i cannot google anything.
I want users to see directory /log which pureftd does not show..

here http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd they say
Symbolic links can be followed when users are chrooted, even when they are pointing out of the chroot jail. This unique feature makes shared content easy to set up.
but i think users are chrooted ?

[falko]

According to http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/doc/README , you have to use the --with-virtualchroot switch.

[radim_h]

Originally Posted by falko

According to http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/doc/README , you have to use the --with-virtualchroot switch.

i'm really waiting for good old proftpd support in 3.0.4

[falko]

If you are on Debian/Ubuntu, you can try this:

echo "yes" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/virtualchroot

(I don't know if it works, I haven't tested it.)

[radim_h]

this is list of my directories in
root@web2:/etc/pure-ftpd/conf# ls -la
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-08-20 11:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-07-27 23:27 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 2009-11-07 19:56 AltLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2010-08-17 18:27 BrokenClientsCompatibility
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2010-08-17 18:27 ChrootEveryone
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2010-08-17 18:27 DisplayDotFiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2010-07-27 23:36 DontResolve
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 2009-11-07 19:56 FSCharset
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2010-08-20 11:05 MaxClientsNumber
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 2010-08-20 11:05 MaxClientsPerIP
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2009-11-07 19:56 MinUID
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 2009-11-08 05:31 MySQLConfigFile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2009-11-07 19:56 NoAnonymous
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2009-11-07 19:56 PAMAuthentication
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 2010-08-19 22:54 PassivePortRange
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28 2009-11-07 19:56 PureDB
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2010-08-19 23:07 TLS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 2009-11-07 19:56 UnixAuthentication

echo "yes" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/virtualchroot

root@web2:/etc/pure-ftpd/conf# /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql restart
Restarting ftp server: /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd-wrapper: Invalid configuration file /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/virtualchroot: No corresponding directive

this happens also if filename is VirtualChroot, same thing if ChrootEveryone = yes (tried also with this file removed)

[falko]

Ok, this doesn't work then. Please delete /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/virtualchroot to make PureFTPd start again.

[radim_h]

i tried more, virtualchroot Off is wrong, user then can follow link and leave his chroot directory which is bad...
ProFTPD, ProFTPD, ProFTPD, ProFTPD, ProFTPD, ProFTPD, ! .o)

[shen]

Hi,

did anyone find a solution for that? As backups ars stored outside the users directories, but are symlinked there, FTP users cannot access their backups right now.

I really need a solution for my users to access their backup files.

Thanks
Stefan

[radim_h]

i was stupid, i had VIRTUALCHROOT=yes instead of VIRTUALCHROOT=true
in config


/etc/default/pure-ftpd-common has to look like this :
# Configuration for pure-ftpd
# (this file is sourced by /bin/sh, edit accordingly)

# STANDALONE_OR_INETD
# valid values are "standalone" and "inetd".
# Any change here overrides the setting in debconf.
STANDALONE_OR_INETD=standalone

# VIRTUALCHROOT:
# whether to use binary with virtualchroot support
# valid values are "true" or "false"
# Any change here overrides the setting in debconf.
VIRTUALCHROOT=true

# UPLOADSCRIPT: if this is set and the daemon is run in standalone mode,
# pure-uploadscript will also be run to spawn the program given below
# for handling uploads. see /usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/README.gz or
# pure-uploadscript(8)

# example: UPLOADSCRIPT=/usr/local/sbin/uploadhandler.pl
UPLOADSCRIPT=

# if set, pure-uploadscript will spawn $UPLOADSCRIPT running as the
# given uid and gid
UPLOADUID=
UPLOADGID=


everything works fine now

[radim_h]

Just to complete this, someone can use it, passive ports or TLS or whatever

--with-virtualchroot is compiled by default on Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS and other binary packages, that Ubuntu TLS bug is gone after last update (01/11)

My directory /etc/pure-ftpd/conf - Values inside files
AltLog - clf:/var/log/pure-ftpd/transfer.log
BrokenClientsCompatibility - yes
ChrootEveryone - yes (important!)
DisplayDotFiles - yes
DontResolve - yes
FSCharset - UTF-8
MaxClientsNumber - 200
MaxClientsPerIP - 10
MinUID - 1000
MySQLConfigFile - /etc/pure-ftpd/db/mysql.conf
NoAnonymous - yes
PAMAuthentication - yes
PassivePortRange - 60001 60200 (pickup any range you want, don't forget to set in firewall)
PureDB - /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb
TLS - 1
UnixAuthentication - no