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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ftp?
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 04:33:06
Message-Id: 20170515163233.6938ede7@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ftp? by lee
1 On Sun, 14 May 2017 02:59:41 +0100
2 lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
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4 > That requires shell access.
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6 Not necessarily, it just requires a competent ISP.
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8 For instance, there's no shell access on github, but there's still
9 ssh-based sync.
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11 So you just need to have a restricted environment that only allows
12 spawning of the server side parts of the sftp protocol, and a suitable
13 authentication scheme.
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15 You're going to want authentication for push anyway.