Re: [galaxy-user] Secure file upload gateway for Galaxy

[James Taylor]

Galaxy's FTP support uses ProFTPD, which has modules for both TLS
(FTPS) and SFTP.

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James Taylor, Associate Professor, Biology/CS, Emory University


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Georgios Magklaras
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our team at the University of Oslo is building a Life Science Portal
> based on Galaxy. We operate several standalone instances and we have the
> necessary sysadmin experience, but we really need to implement a more
> secure file upload mechanism than FTP (we do not like to send cleartext
> password credentials in the open ), and we understand that Galaxy does
> not integrate an upload method other than FTP with reference to this
> screencast:
>
> http://screencast.g2.bx.psu.edu/quickie_17_ftp_upload/flow.html
>
>
> One possible solution for this is to setup an SFTP upload server with a
> huge scratch space, that runs the SFTP upload gateway on one end and an
> IP restricted FTP server on the other, so that users can then
> upload/index the SFTP uploaded data into their Galaxy session via the
> URL upload field. This two step process might be a bit cumbersome for
> some of our users and we are looking for ways to simplify it.
>
> Do you have best recipes for SFTP/Aspera upload gateway integration to
> Galaxy? We would welcome advise on that matter.
>
> GM
>
>
> Best regards,
>
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>
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>
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>
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Re: [galaxy-user] Secure file upload gateway for Galaxy

[Carlos Borroto]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Georgios Magklaras
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you have best recipes for SFTP/Aspera upload gateway integration to
> Galaxy? We would welcome advise on that matter.
>

Hi,

I haven't implemented yet, but I'm planning on using plain scp(windows
user can use WinSCP). I shouldn't have problems doing so by using this
option in universe_wsgi.ini:
# Add an option to the library upload form which allows authorized
# non-administrators to upload a directory of files.  The configured directory
# must contain sub-directories named the same as the non-admin user's Galaxy
# login ( email ).  The non-admin user is restricted to uploading files or
# sub-directories of files contained in their directory.
user_library_import_dir = /local/opt/galaxy/import_dir

Hope it helps,
Carlos
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