Hello all, I've been a TCH customer for a few months now. Everything has worked fine so far,
although I miss the ability to manager my files in batch mode.
The "File Manager" in the cpanel is fine to do a couple of operations... but if you want to operate on many files at once, it is very cumbersome. (for instance, if I want to select many individual files from a folder to delete them).
Implementing SFTP access for TCH customers, while forbidding SSH access is not very difficult:
In this guide they show how to do it: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/94/print
Basically, as root:
One time operation: Add the sftp-server as a valid shell:
echo '/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server' >> /etc/shells
Per user operation: assign sftp-server as the shell of the user:
usermod -s /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server username
THen again, I know it is not as simple as doing this for a bunch (or all) of TCH accounts; you first need to study the impact
on performance, and I do not know whether accounts are really unix-based accounts at the moment.
I hope to see secure FTP access (SFTP) available in TCH soon!
Cheers,
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Pedro Soria-Rodriguez
http://www.megaspora.net
