Re: backup entire system

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Havens
Well, unfortunately I can't use System Rescue CD or Redo Backup and Recovery because I only have one drive. On Tue, Dec 2011 at 11:29 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I started partmage or something and found out that my filesystem is ext3. I don't know why I thought that. I only

Re: How to Restrict a User's Access Using SFTP?

2011-12-28 Thread Brian Cluff
Take a look at the rssh package, it has the ability to put users into a chroot jail as well as restrict them to only being able to use certain commands like sftp. See the README in /usr/share/doc/rssh for details on how to set the chroot jail up. Brian Cluff On 12/27/2011 10:46 PM, Mark

Re: backup entire system

2011-12-28 Thread Stephen
Clomezill will do network file systems quite nicely. On Dec 28, 2011 1:47 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Well, unfortunately I can't use System Rescue CD or Redo Backup and Recovery because I only have one drive. On Tue, Dec 2011 at 11:29 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com

Re: How to Restrict a User's Access Using SFTP?

2011-12-28 Thread Eric Shubert
On 12/27/2011 10:46 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: I need to give a user access to my web server via sftp to upload web site changes. What is the best way to do this? I have several other sites on the same server, so I want to prevent them or anyone else who gains access to their account from being

Re: How to Restrict a User's Access Using SFTP?

2011-12-28 Thread Eric Shubert
That should be ok. Be sure you have your ftp server configured such that they cannot access folders above/across their home folder. File permissions may handle this, but probably will not (many things are world readable). Also, be sure that they cannot login to a command prompt by setting

ruby woes

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Havens
I hate it when you are trying to learn something and what you are learning from is incomplete or wrong. This is the beginning of a ruby script I am writing which will (in the section shown) erase a file. ruby tells me that line 15 is wrong! It says: ex16.rb:15: undefined local variable or

Re: How to Restrict a User's Access Using SFTP?

2011-12-28 Thread azlobo73
If you can either relocate the vhost or the user home directory, then this might be of some help, which explains using built-in chroot functionality with sftp access to restrict access and visibility: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/590 Ben On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Eric

Re: How to Restrict a User's Access Using SFTP?

2011-12-28 Thread azlobo73
Sorry - built-in OpenSSH chroot functionality On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:36 AM, azlobo73 azlob...@gmail.com wrote: If you can either relocate the vhost or the user home directory, then this might be of some help, which explains using built-in chroot functionality with sftp access to restrict

Re: backup entire system

2011-12-28 Thread Brian Parma
You might want to look at fsarchiver instead of clonezilla/partimage, it's more up-to-date. On 12/28/2011 08:53 AM, Stephen wrote: Clomezill will do network file systems quite nicely. On Dec 28, 2011 1:47 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com mailto:bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Well,