The chrooted sftp access should be working for projects members now. Please report problems at <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=savannah>
Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I finally got all the pieces together and tried to create an arch > repository on Savannah. > > What did I find? I could not. The error looked suspiciously similar to > one I'd seen before, one I had helped fix. > > I logged in and took a look at the sshd config file. As I suspected. > > Somehow, Savannah switched back to a version of the configuration file > that doesn't work. > > Can someone please restore it to a working version. I didn't expect a > lot from Savannah, because I know you admins are hard working and have > limited time because you are volunteers. > > But I have ship dates to meet, or my project will lose credibility. A > lot of people have been contributing to Xouvert, and the success of the > project reflects directly on them. > > It is important that Savannah support sftp access. > > The way Savannah is set up right now, chroot access for sftp is NOT > possible. > > Someone switched the sshd configuration to use the so-called "chroot" > version of the sftp subsystem. This does not work, it has never worked, > and it CANNOT work. Any project that wants to have an arch repository > needs it to work, including my project. > > sftp has never yet been compromised, and the version of ssh on Savannah > is up to date. The directory permissions are set correctly. What is to > worry about? Noone is able to access anything with sftp they cannot > ALREADY access with ssh. > > Please, reenable the proper, working sftp subsystem. It won't > compromise system security, but what you currently have does compromise > system usability. I have software to ship. > > I hope this can be resolved amicably and swiftly. > > Jonathan Walther > Xouvert Project Coordinator > > -- > > It's not true unless it makes you laugh, > but you don't understand it until it makes you weep. > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Geek House Productions, Ltd. > > Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting, > QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation, > General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998 > > Phone: 604-435-1205 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Webpage: http://reactor-core.org > Address: 2459 E 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R2W2 > > -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers