Re: [Jailkit-users] How to allow a user from outside of jail to access a folder inside the jail?

[Steve Mapes]

Ah yes of course!

I setup a new folder outside of home, symlinked that into the user home 
folder for their ease and everything now works as I hoped.

Many thanks.


Olivier Sessink wrote:
> Steve Mapes wrote:
> > I gave that a try, but I still get access denied problems
> >
> > This is what I am trying to achieve
> >
> > /jailroot/home/user1                         the jailusers folder.
> > /jailroot/home/user1/upload              The folder where they place 
> > items to be imported by the webuser account.  Owner is user1, group 
> > is "jailusers" which includes user1 and webuser
> > /www/uploads/user1                        A symlink to 
> > /jailroot/home/user1/upload/
>
> if I understand you correctly this has nothing to do with jails, but 
> this is a problem with unix permissions.
>
> if user webuser cannot read /jailroot/home/user1/ that user can also 
> not follow a symlink into /jailroot/home/user1/upload/
>
> you'll have to move the upload directory outside the home directory of 
> user1
>
> regards,
>     Olivier
>
>
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