Hi. On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:17:35 -0500 Steve Matzura <s...@noisynotes.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get around the restriction of symlinks not resolving in > FTP when the account is DefaultRoot'ed and CHRoot'ed. I mounted a NAS > volume, some directories of which I want to appear as being rooted > elsewhere, thus: > > # mkdir -p /mnt/nas > # mount.cifs //ds1/vol1 /mnt/nas -o [various options] > > When I 'ls -l /mnt/nas', I see all the directories at the top level of > //ds1/vol1. Fine. > > Now, according to everything I've read about bind mount, I should be > able to: > > # mount -o bind /mnt/nas/doc /home/steve/doc > > where `doc' is a directory on /mnt/nas as described above, and > `/home/steve/doc' is where I want it to appear in my own directory > structure. Therefore, if I FTP into the steve account, while I cannot > escape up the tree past /home/steve, the path /home/steve/doc should > have been able to be created, and I should be able to access it in the > normal FTP way. However, the above mount with bind command yields: > > mount special device /mnt/nas/doc does not exist Please post the output of: strace mount -B /mnt/nas/doc /home/steve/doc Reco
