Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:20:35PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Andrew> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:06:23PM +0900, Stephen
>     Andrew> J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
>     >> Therefore, they are probably not appropriate for arch (this
>     >> would mean hacking up an alternative sftp subsystem, a priori a
>     >> very risky idea), but I thought I'd mention them.
> 
>     Andrew> This is vastly easier than you make it sound. A
>     Andrew> "subsystem" is just an executable; you can make that a
>     Andrew> shell script which sets up the environment and execs
>     Andrew> sftp-server.
> 
> "Risky" == "doing it without introducing security risks not present in
> sshd was a job for a specialist last time I looked."  No?  It's on the
> GNU server, and they're understandably more than a little paranoid at
> the moment.

No. Here's an example:

#!/bin/sh
umask 002
exec /usr/lib/sftp-server

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