[You probably don't want to hear this, but you should hear it anyway] Use A Maven repository manager and then you will not be worrying about sftp at all.
You should be using a maven repository manager in any case. your life will be much much simpler -Stephen On 6 September 2010 09:15, Trevor Harmon <tre...@vocaro.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running into a build failure when doing "mvn deploy" via SFTP. This > appears to be a bug that affects any repository whose SFTP host disallows > access to the root directory. > > Here's what I know so far: By instrumenting JSch (which does the actual > SFTP commands), I can see that the problem occurs when JSch issues a "cd .." > too many times. In fact, it does "cd .." all the way back to the root and > just keeps on going, doing a "cd .." several more times. > > Ordinarily this wouldn't be a problem, but when the permissions of the SFTP > user don't allow cd'ing into the root directory (for increased security), > there will be a permission denied error, which in turn causes the build to > fail. > > Assuming that the security policy of the server cannot be altered, I'm > trying to figure out if there's a way to resolve this on the client side. > However, I have no idea why Deploy is trying to "cd .." so many times. For > example, if I configure the snapshots repository as something like: > > sftp://example.com/home/myuser/myrepository/snapshots > > Then there's no need to cd anywhere above the "snapshots" directory. But > Deploy does exactly that, for some reason. > > From studying the logs I put into JSch, Deploy appears to be trying to > check the repo for previous artifact metadata, and to do so it issues a "cd" > into a directory deep in the hierarchy. But because this artifact doesn't > happen to be in the repo, the directory does not exist, yet the code > continues on as if it does. It then issues a series of "cd .." commands, > which, if the directory existed, would probably bring it back to some > appropriate spot in the hierarchy, but because the first "cd" failed, it > starts from a much higher level and ends up ascending well past the root. > > Any thoughts? Thanks, > > Trevor > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
