Limiting access to just SFTP?

[Rik Mills]

On 17/10/2020 10:55, Fabian Vogt wrote:
> 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.

If that breaks rsync, this would break current Kubuntu automation scripts.

Rik