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[Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/13/12 9:13 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> they were not, and still cannot giver ssh / ssh -X access. It's not rocket
> science for hecks sake?
> 
> I rest my case.
>
> Phill.

Doing sftp instead of full ssh / ssh -X access would allow editing to
without granting further access.  Doing chrooted sftp would limit the
editing to specific directories without granting further access.  Would
that work?

Regards
/Lars

> On 13 May 2012 18:28, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/13/12 6:37 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Oh, and for those of you who do not know, Mario got lubuntu.netregistered
>>> to an F/OSS area that cannot fully update it nor supply ssh access.
>> [snip]
>>
>> In case it hasn't been brought up before, access can be controlled by
>> both 1) using chrooted SFTP, which is very easy to set up, and 2) using
>> keys for authentication.  Between the two, there's not need to give out
>> the keys to the kingdom while still allowing editing of specific pages.
>>
>> Regards,
>> /Lars
>>
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