Chrooted ftpd users can't access system time.

[nocturnal]

Hi

I use /etc/ftpchroot to chroot the users but i don't think i should be 
forced to link a file into each users home directory. That's not only a 
lot of users but there will also be questions from users about what kind 
of file it is and what it's doing there. I would appreciate any other 
solutions, if they exist.



Med vänliga hälsningar

Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal
[Swehack] http://swehack.se


Greg Barniskis wrote:
> nocturnal wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm using the ftpd server that ships with FreeBSD and when i chroot a 
>> user i notice that all created directories and files have GMT time on 
>> them as if the process can't access the system time because it's 
>> chrooted. That's only my theory. I would love a way to solve this, i 
>> just can't imagine that people have had this problem for so long 
>> without solving it.
> 
> I believe you merely need to copy or link the system's /etc/localtime to 
> the effective /etc of the chroot tree.
> 
> But that's from memory, could only be theory too.
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