On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 08:51:59AM -0500, Tom Haapanen wrote:
> >On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Tom Haapanen wrote:
> >> Name (foo.motorsport.com:jackd): jack
> >> 331 Password required for jack.
> >...
> >> ftp> pwd
> >> 257 "/u/jackjack" is the current directory.
> >...
> >> Where can I look for misconfiguration?  Or have I stumbled onto a real
> bug?
> 
> Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > It's a feature, not a bug. 8-)
> > Traditionally Unix shows you the absolute path when logged in as
> > non-anonymous user - after all why shouldn't they wander around on the
> > file system. I guess you can change this by setting all useres
> > (explicitly) as chroot or something - see /etc/ftpchroot.
> >
> > Why this confuses your users is beyond me, though. :)
> 
> Sorry, I should have been more explicit.  Yes, I would expect the full path,
> and this is indeed the behaviour I do want.
> 
> However, Jack's home directory is "/u/jack" -- and yet using the FTP
> connection, he is seeing it as "/u/jackjack".  Somehow the directory name is
> being doubled.  Why?  How?  How can I avoid this?  And why do my 1.4.1
> systems not double the name?

I've had a look at the differences between the ftpd source in 1.4.1
and 1.4.2 and as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be anything
which would cause that problem.

Can you test NetBSD 1.5? Or at least libexec/ftpd from a 1.4.3
distribution (which should run ok on 1.4.2).

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