Limiting access to just SFTP?

[Fabian Vogt]

Moin,

Am Samstag, 17. Oktober 2020, 10:26:20 CEST schrieb Ben Cooksley:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sysadmin is currently in the process of preparing a replacement system to
> Milonia, and one option currently under consideration with this is reducing
> the level of access to the system we grant packagers.
> 
> Currently you are all provided with fully fledged shell accounts on the
> system, which we're proposing to reduce to SFTP access only.
> 
> It would be appreciated if you could please let us know if this would cause
> any issues as part of your packaging workflows.

I actually assumed it was just sftp until I found out (by accident) that it's
not. I never used the shell for anything, so the change sounds fine to me.

AFAICT this would break rsync though, so that's something to be aware of.

Cheers,
Fabian

> Thanks,
> Ben Cooksley
> KDE Sysadmin