-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Kartik Singhal writes: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> [Your CCing the same mail to various lists in the name of X-Post sucks. It >> is >> rude when other lists permits only subscribers to post. So, for a little >> convenience of yours, you're pissing off those who are trying to help >> you. Please avoid this, this is not USENET.] >> > Yeah, seems like I messed up :( . Your mail was not received by fsug-tvm. > Have never used USENET though. Won't repeat my mistake. Yes, that's because I'm not subscribed to that list and I received a failure notice. > You mean we have NFS for anonymous mount, SFTP for authentication and Samba > for windows clients (if I got that right)? Yes, NFS mount with 'all_squash' option to squash all users to the anonymous UID/GID. >>> And instead of having this script, why not initialize the ~guest with a >> >> .desktop file which points to location like: sftp://192.168.5.82/ >> >> > It is indeed a .desktop file while just runs this script. This is for >> > accessing the private shares of a particular user which is not same as >> the >> > 'user' account they use to login to the client. >> >> The reason I suggested is because entering a username/password in a dialog >> box >> looks straightforward to me, and SFTP url will be the same. You can >> configure >> OpenSSH in chroot mode[1] preventing users from exploring the server >> file-system. >> > I think I missed the point earlier as we had not deployed SFTP ever. SFTP = file transfer protocol (not FTP) over SSH. You can create SFTP-only users restricted to their chroot. >> And also if '/$un/' share requires authentication, you're entering same >> username twice, one at your script and other in the user/password dialog >> box >> which nautilus pops up. SFTP offers secure access and is well integrated >> with >> Nautilus and GNOME VFS. >> > Yeah, this was annoying to enter the user name twice. Seems like this would > be a far better solution. > Thanks for all the help and your time. Will try this setup and inform here. Cool. Looking forward to read your experience. - -- Ashish SHUKLA “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” (George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four", 1949) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJMSybuAAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwQlkQALQzSZ3YOUOxW7oB1hAL1KkQ EQisOAHE7ul4+tzkKbpjqunz4kwOM5VVR/aipwB0v0UmPdupgytzpwrmBv0q3hjT JyR67kJdNekfk0UJFwdtGhLeCXXXLyaO7sHvBxA/gIMYBmMNrO3BKdacLIfrs305 LqDLnx2uOSqDMK3r44earinGOlHn0xISawYmzl+mYfooO/QVyaA/aMlhSCjJhZDL vXSy9ueYfh84xFgB5ZHONPdzRbP3gkN5L1QMo6c6Hz0X6JGWOb+/zTpsn2qQzkmo fTicjHVxJv8O6wFDgdkyQSQpAbdxejRwOfke9D6ZAbCjX+FivL/kPABAO9oq2ert BfWDIETzWumT3AYlJxvu4CN8yt58Fs8erbaCPXQHmWGCkFRPEnJ3TjRsv16+4Y0z qsqxWcJGmJBm2hL/50SOm4IueSCYP8ILgMf/EYMST+g/xQOSkbEVDpAryvFpCn90 rmCkjqG335IsgucnIiILyzIbyJcXb+Q4SPlFLrLKoxEScAwsxkWgmF/0bzvxSQPY zhhUQpA55oXiMWp79b6z3y5XnrAPbj8oI4+n4SCmR/9TyUmk1H8z6wgIT3cf8zrM i9wRMXMPXRJWXe+rkKxDeQPzVrSWxImoZTfyYxkJBuvqGQRGiNrEERJuV0LULycX TQt83ykz9OFTSvbbaONQ =ggra -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
