[Savannah-hackers] Re: Savannah sftp broken again!

[Mathieu Roy]

The chrooted sftp access should be working for projects members now.

Please report problems at
<http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=savannah>


Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> 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
> 
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