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[Savannah-hackers] Re: Savannah sftp broken again!
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Mathieu Roy |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: Savannah sftp broken again! |
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17 Sep 2003 10:11:03 +0200 |
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The chrooted sftp access should be working for projects members now.
Please report problems at
<http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=savannah>
Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> said:
> I finally got all the pieces together and tried to create an arch
> repository on Savannah.
>
> What did I find? I could not. The error looked suspiciously similar to
> one I'd seen before, one I had helped fix.
>
> I logged in and took a look at the sshd config file. As I suspected.
>
> Somehow, Savannah switched back to a version of the configuration file
> that doesn't work.
>
> Can someone please restore it to a working version. I didn't expect a
> lot from Savannah, because I know you admins are hard working and have
> limited time because you are volunteers.
>
> But I have ship dates to meet, or my project will lose credibility. A
> lot of people have been contributing to Xouvert, and the success of the
> project reflects directly on them.
>
> It is important that Savannah support sftp access.
>
> The way Savannah is set up right now, chroot access for sftp is NOT
> possible.
>
> Someone switched the sshd configuration to use the so-called "chroot"
> version of the sftp subsystem. This does not work, it has never worked,
> and it CANNOT work. Any project that wants to have an arch repository
> needs it to work, including my project.
>
> sftp has never yet been compromised, and the version of ssh on Savannah
> is up to date. The directory permissions are set correctly. What is to
> worry about? Noone is able to access anything with sftp they cannot
> ALREADY access with ssh.
>
> Please, reenable the proper, working sftp subsystem. It won't
> compromise system security, but what you currently have does compromise
> system usability. I have software to ship.
>
> I hope this can be resolved amicably and swiftly.
>
> Jonathan Walther
> Xouvert Project Coordinator
>
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