Re: [Savannah-users] Re: Replacing FTP queue with SFTP?

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:30:07PM +0100, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
> Am Freitag, dem 03. Nov 2006 schrieb Sylvain Beucler:
> 
> > dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/
> 
> Unfortunately there does no dl.sv.nongnu.org/releases/ exist - 
> I mean the abbreviation dl for nongnu.

I'll ask the DNS masters to update it.


> > Yes: files uploaded via the queue are owned by the queue daemon, as
> > well as directories created with a queue directive. This can lead to
> > situations where you cannot use SFTP to remove files uploaded via the
> > FTP queue.
> 
> That's not true, sorry.
> Removing files doesn't depend on the privileges of the file, but only 
> on the privileges of the directory.

Oh yes that's true :p

You can ask the queue daemon to create a directory using a special
directive file. Files inside that directory won't be removable as the
directory won't belong to you :)

-- 
Sylvain