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

[Maarten Bezemer]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to
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changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem
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Also in my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~veger/+archive/ppa) is a very new
version, that hopefully will be accepted into the Ubuntu repositories
soon (bug #905610), if you 'dare' you could try that one as well.

** Changed in: mc (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Symbolic links by FTP connection are opened as absolute path

Status in “mc” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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

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