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if you've ever setup vsftpd and noticed that when you login it defaults the user to their home directory

eg: user anyweb will ftp in to

/home/anyweb/

then how can you let that user access another folder outside of their home ?

using bind !

here's a quick example

Code:
[root@www anyweb]# mkdir ftp2

[root@www anyweb]# mount --bind /ftp2  /home/anyweb/ftp2

[root@www anyweb]# mkdir ftp3

[root@www anyweb]# mount --bind /ftp3  /home/anyweb/ftp3

now when you ftp in, you'll see the contents of /home/anyweb PLUS ther'll also be two additional folders called ftp2 and ftp3 and anything you dump in there or read from there comes directly from the 'real' directories

/ftp2

and

/ftp3

got it ?

thanks to jY in #linux-noob for this tip

cheers

anyweb

anyone know how to unbind a 'bound mount' as in the above examples ?

cheers

anyweb

Hi anyweb,

just issue the following:

Code:
umount /home/anyweb/ftp2

That should work

anyweb

anyweb

xDamox