[Owncloud] SFTP to a user's ownCloud files?

[Advrk Aplmrkt]

Wow, I didn't realise this would be so complicated. Would it be any
different to setup FTPS instead?

I think either SFTP or FTPS access to a user's ownCloud share would be
a really nice feature!

On 20 February 2012 10:32, Andreas Schneider <asn at cryptomilk.org> wrote:
> On Monday 20 February 2012 16:09:29 Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 15:08, Simon Kainz <simon at familiekainz.at> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > well, do you have already user accounts on the server, maybe with the
>> > same usernames as the owncloud users?
>> >
>> > Problem would be, every user needs a home directory (which would be
>> > files/username for OC).
>> >
>> > Another issue concerning file permissions: In OC (either webdav or via
>> > Brower upload) files are normally owned by the www-server user, not by
>> > the user who uplaoded the file, this would need some investigation.
>>
>> And additionally, users would probably want to use the same password.
>> If using a mysql backend, one might be able to use pam_mysql. But
>
> You can put it together with 20 ugly hacks (introducing 5 security problems
> iny our system) or implement a ssh/sftp server using http://www.libssh.org/ ;)