Symbolic Links

[KPS]

Hi,

I have a mountpoint called /house with useful data in this mountpoint and sub-directory /house/home/ftpora.

I want to point the user /home/ftpora to this mountpoint and subdirectory with a symbolic link. Could someome cure my confusion and help me out with the syntax that would be used in this context?

Thanks in advance...
-Ken

[The Real MD]

ln -s /house /home/ftpora



I've not had any points allocated yet so please be generous.

Martin.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi Ken,


Make sure you don't have /home/ftpora already. If so, move it

#mv /home/ftpora /home/ftpora.orig
#ln -s /house/home/ftpora /home/ftpora



-Sri

[KPS]

That was my problem. I had the right syntax to link the user to the directory, but I already had a /home/ftpora and it wasn't setting up properly.

Thanks very much for your help!!!!

[Mark Greene_1]

To created a symbolic link:

ln -s /file/linked /dest/dir/and/file

however, if what you really want is for user ftpora to have access to /house/home/ftpora, you'd add that to ftpora's entry in /etc/passwd as the home directory. You may also what to chroot it if you don't want them cd'ing out of that dir.

mark