On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 14:23 -0700, timothy johnson wrote:
> I used the mount --bind cmd when making a dir that all my users could read to

What about using ACLs? It should work too

> 
> On Apr 6, 2005 1:16 PM, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to come up with a way for two seperate users logging in via
> > FTP to have a location where they can share files back and forth.
> > 
> > That is to say, user A and user B would both be able to get to this,
> > write to it, delete files even if they were put there by the other user
> > etc.
> > 
> > The only thing I came up with so far (I was in a hurry) was creating a
> > seperate directory elsewhere, and having a symlink called "shared" in
> > each of the users home dirs pointing at this seperate directory.
> > 
> > The dir is owned by user A, and the group is set to that of B, and the
> > dir is mode 770.
> > 
> > This works out fine when I log in via ncftp, however when i use IE the
> > "shared" item isn't even listed.
> > 
> > I use proftpd for the ftp server, so I found the ShowSymlinks option and
> > set that. However it still doesn't show this symlink in either user A or
> > B's home dir, when using IE.
> > 
> > Proftpd has a setting to show dotfiles, but due to other uses of the ftp
> > server, that's just not acceptable.
> > 
> > So I'm looking for a better way to do this, any ideas?
> > 
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