access symlink in ftpd??

[Jerry Hicks]

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 08:50  PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

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> Overlong lines.
>
> On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:44:13 +0200, Andre wrote:
> On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:45:27 +0200, Andre wrote:
> On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:46:56 +0200, Andre wrote:
> On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:46:59 +0200, Andre wrote:
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> Once is enough, and this time is 10 hours in the future.
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>> I have setup a FreeBSD box with Mysql,apache+mod_php for practical
>> purposes, when i want to update the webpages on the FreeBSD machine
>> i found it very hard to first use FTP to transfer the pages from my
>> windows machine, and then SSH in to the FreeBSD machine and move the
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> files to the documentroot.
>>
>> how do i do a symlink that points to the default ftpddir
>> ( /usr/home/name ) ?
>
> What's the problem?
>
>  $ ln -s $documentroot ~
>
> But that's not the real answer.  If you're using ftp, you're also
> transferring your password in the clear.  After that, you don't need
> ssh to access the machine; you've already compromised yourself.  I use
> rsync for this purpose.
[snip]

"But I don't have rsync on my windows machine..."

Get it (and ssh too) here: http://cygwin.com/

Or better yet, just start using FreeBSD exclusively :-)

Cheers,

Jerry Hicks
gehicks at alltel.net