News: Secure FTP access to download area
Secure FTP access to download area
Item posted by Loic Dachary <loic> on Fri Jul 12 17:08:59 2002.
Secure FTP access to download area Many people complained that rsync over ssh were too difficult to deal
with and that scp alone did not have enough functionalities to
properly manage the upload area of Savannah projects. Savannah now
offers the sftp service which is an equivalent of ftp running over an
ssh connection. It should be included in popular ssh distributions. If
it is not the case, we suggest you consider an upgrade.
A typical usage for project MYPROJECT would be:
sftp MYUSERNAME@freesoftware.fsf.org:/MYPROJECT/
Connecting to freesoftware.fsf.org...
Changing to: /uri/
From this point you can PUT files in the upload area and immediately
see them at http://savannah.gnu.org/download/MYPROJECT/. You can also
delete existing files (RM), create directories (MKDIR) or change the
file permissions (CHMOD).
It is our hope that sftp will make your life easier.
Happy hacking, the Savannah Hackers
Comments:
| problems : (posted by James Michael DuPont, Sun Jun 1 07:51:13 2003) |
try 1 :
rsync -av --rsh=ssh ./redland-dist.tgz mdupont@freesoftware.fsf.org:/upload/
any ideas? |
| Finally figured out how to make this work! (posted by Dan Nelson, Fri Dec 27 22:16:05 2002) |
Apparently the sftp-server component is in the wrong place on freesoftware.fsf.org. You need to add the -s flag to force the path that it expects:
sftp -1 -s /usr/lib/sftp-server MYUSERNAME@freesoftware.fsf.org:/MYPROJECT/
This definitely does work; I've tried from a couple different OSes.
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| the command above is wrong (posted by Daniel Baumann, Sat Jul 27 17:25:16 2002) |
the correct command is:
sftp -1 MYUSERNAME@freesoftware.fsf.org:/MYPROJECT/ |
| RE: the command above is wrong (posted by Luca Saiu, Sat Jul 27 19:33:30 2002) |
When I used the "-1" option as you suggested the server replied
Connecting to freesoftware.fsf.org...
Might it be a problem with permissions? |
| RE: the command above is wrong (posted by Dan Nelson, Sat Jul 27 19:52:19 2002) |
I get the same error, running
OpenSSH_3.4p1 FreeBSD-20020702, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090603f
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| RE: the command above is wrong (posted by Daniel Baumann, Sat Jul 27 20:04:00 2002) |
you should do a
export CVS_RSH=ssh
manually or include it into you /etc/profile |
| RE: the command above is wrong (posted by Dan Nelson, Sat Jul 27 20:14:35 2002) |
That only applies to people trying to access the CVS repository using an old copy of cvs that does not already default to ssh. We're trying to sftp here :)
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| RE: the command above is wrong (posted by Beda Kosata, Thu Aug 8 13:09:47 2002) |
same problem. |
| This doesn't work (posted by RIQUER Vincent, Mon Sep 16 19:54:07 2002) |
nircotik @ Licorne ~/Prog/Bash/labapus$ sftp -1 script-fan@freesoftware.fsf.org:/labapus/
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| Authentication (posted by Luca Saiu, Sat Jul 27 15:39:14 2002) |
Sorry, when I tried the new SFTP access for upgrading the download area of my project, epsilon I was asked for a password.
I tried:
Have you an hint?
Thanks
-- positrone
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| RE: Authentication (posted by Alex Moffat, Mon Aug 5 02:01:45 2002) |
I had the same problem. I'm using debian and installed sftp. scp was working fine, cvs still works but sftp doesn't. I used
sftp alexmoffat@freesoftware.fsf.org:/xsltxt/
and was prompted for a password, but which password?
Any help? |
| RE: Authentication (posted by Daniel Baumann, Mon Aug 5 16:10:44 2002) |
like it is written above,
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