Limiting access to just SFTP?

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:54 PM Rik Mills <rikmills at kubuntu.org> wrote:

> On 18/10/2020 02:16, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben
>
> It would certainly be less convenient for checking on the status of new
> tars/respins etc.
>

Please note that these are usually announced to you anyway (via this
mailing list) and if you're using RSync (which you've essentially all said
you are) then it should be able to pick up changes such as this with
minimal overhead and issue as the timestamps on the files will have changed.


>
> At the moment where a team has multiple packagers/machines with separate
> ssh keys, it is easy to log in and change those. Will we still be able
> to make such changes ourselves?
>

That is to be determined.


>
> As said, we (kubuntu) have symlinks to common dirs in our homedir, to
> make access easier. Will we still be able to manage those?
>

You will still be able to make symlinks yes (using sftp)


>
> Rik
>
>
Cheers,
Ben
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