Limiting access to just SFTP?

Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org
Sun Oct 18 02:16:15 BST 2020


On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 9:26 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>

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.
>

Based on the feedback received it appears that RSync access is far more
valued compared with SFTP.

Therefore if we were to permit sftp/rsync/scp to operate, but no shell
access would that pose any issues?



>
> Thanks,
> Ben Cooksley
> KDE Sysadmin
>

Cheers,
Ben
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