[Pkg-mc-devel] [Bug 508785] Re: Symbolic links by FTP connection are opened as absolute path

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

I am not sure whether "opening link as a name" is a valid behavior that
is expected from the FTP clients. I guess I have to do some digging in
the RFCs for that matter if miraculously I get some spare time...

Hmmm...

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Symbolic links by FTP connection are opened as absolute path
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508785
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Bug description:
Binary package hint: mc

I am using Pure-FTPd on server, which allows symbolic links in virtual chroot to go outside of the chroot. I tryied 4 different FTP clients on Windows, everyone opens the symbolic link correctly (CWD linkname), but when I try it with Midnight Commander, he tryies open the link with absolute path:

Server directory structure:

/var/www/login/
|-logs
|-ftp
| |- logs -> /var/www/login/logs
| |- somefiles

Chroot is on ftp directory. When I try some FTP clients, everyone opens the logs symlink with 'CWD logs' but Midnight Commander executes 'CWD //var/www/login' (this I get from packet sniffer, perhaps he tryies to open the absolute path, then the requested directory).

I just tryied the Nautilus, the behaviour is the same as Midnight Commander, FileZilla works ok.

Ubuntu 9.10
mc 2:4.6.2-2ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 17 16:05:00 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: mc 2:4.6.2-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: mc
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64