Les Mikesell wrote: > I don't think tar is capable of transferring a directory listing without > the contents of the files. Since it runs over ssh you could run some > other command, but the command isn't guaranteed to exist or to be > permitted by the sshd config at the other end.
If 'tar' is permitted by the remote 'sshd' config then I don't see the danger of also allowing '/bin/ls', especially since only the backuppc user on the local system would be allowed to initiate a remote '/bin/ls'. If the right command isn't '/bin/ls' then there could be a BPC client-specific configuration option with the correct command. > And there would be no upper limit on the amount of time it might take > to generate the full listing - it's not something you'd want to wait > for on a web page. True, but maybe in this case the directory listing could be generated incrementally, where the first display would display only the topmost directories (or maybe the topmost plus some small number of lower directories). If users want to see lower level directories then only the first few levels of these sub-directories would be returned back to the server. Or, if we really want to get fancy, there could be an AJAX-enable web interface. That would solve this problem too. Jon Forrest ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
